Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city that used to be a citadel of New Dealish plenty, today's rising taxes and costs and reduced municipal services make for an unusual campaign. It has become politic to be probusiness. Though Abe Beame insists that "we've weathered the storm," his own Temporary Commission on City Finances reported last month that the city is still in peril. The commission urged greater austerity and more enticing tax reductions for business, and told the city it must invest whatever funds it can spare in economic development rather than traditional services...
...Zahaby was apparently chosen as the group's latest victim because of a recent book in which he attacked Islam's religious extremists. As Minister of Religious Endowments and Al Azhar affairs, Zahaby had also worked to eliminate the society. His murder provoked a religious and political storm. The council of ulama, or scholars, of Cairo's Al Azhar University, the most venerable group of theologians in Islam, solemnly denounced the extremists for "violating the teachings of Islam" by killing a brother Muslim. Police, meanwhile, launched a dragnet that hauled in 190 sect members. At week...
...college "experience" that I now rant about to my children when they, having cleverly attained puberty along with their first molars, now threaten having similar experiences during their all-important high school years. "How can you waste your all-important high school years lathering around about relationships!" I storm, Polonius dressed as King Lear, brandishing an unbalanced checkbook. "I'm not paying the bloody bills to have you bloody find yourself!" And so forth...
...irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow" and said it represented "no change" in U.S. policy. Maybe not, but the storm in Vienna suggests that a genuine and perhaps far-reaching change is indeed taking place...
Rocker & Rock. Walton remains the calm at the center of the storm, living his life as he always has in his rented, five-bedroom communal home with Sports Radicals Jack and Micki Scott, his wife Susan, his l½year-old son Adam, his brother Andy and various drop-in friends. Says Walton: "I don't think I've changed. I still have the same values and interests." Rising by 10 a.m., he typically breakfasts on a quart of juice, a vegetable omelet and rice. On game days, he arrives at the Memorial Coliseum ahead of his teammates...