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...much esoteric research? Hanslin senses that property buyers now want to control their immediate environment, and he suspects that this "ego approach" will supplant the "hedonism communities" of recent years. Whether this is true is largely speculation, but Hanslin likes to speculate. "There is so much room for improvement in the residential area," says he. "There are so damn many challenges everywhere...
...local taxes), this will not provide the resources for any sizable community to meet such needs as better mass transportation, improved housing, nonpolluting waste disposal, and better schools. Nixon is expected to press for congressional approval of "special" revenue sharing, targeted at easing specific problems, but apparently this would supplant the larger federal grants already serving similar purposes...
...already has a coastal-conservation agency, the people will have their say this November at the ballot box. In California, voters will consider Proposition 20, an initiative to establish statewide rules governing all coastal-land uses. If passed, the initiative directs one state and six regional planning commissions to supplant the chaos of some 200 local agencies that now watch over shoreline development. In Washington, the voters will decide whether they should give controls to the state ecology board or allow local governments to regulate development. Governor Dan Evans seems to capture the mood of the West when he says...
Floyd came by the idea because he saw the need to give black children their own hero to supplant those of his boyhood. As he puts it: "I got turned off of Tarzan because he was white and was always swinging out of trees and beating up black natives...
Trouble sets in, writes Kelley, whenever political or other issues supplant such stringent concerns. The recent mainstream Protestant formula-be tolerant, ecumenical, relevant-he describes as a formula for failure. Once a church lapses into such an approach, as the United Methodist Church has, Kelley maintains that a decline in numbers and influence is inevitable...