Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City get into such a mess? The trouble started at least two decades ago under Mayor Robert Wagner. In the name of good labor relations and even better politics, Wagner encouraged the growth of the city's civil service unions. His successor, John Lindsay, tried at first to tame the unions, but they only grew stronger. Lindsay also favored the unwise practice of borrowing to meet the city's operating expenses, not just its capital construction projects. Moreover, New York offers a number of services unavailable in many other cities: free four-year colleges, subsidized day care...
Mine would be an activist, provocative Administration. Let us first talk about the economy. True, we can't totally tame the business cycle. But I think that it can be influenced in a substantial way to be less troublesome and to unleash the enormous resources of this country. What has happened is that there has been a tendency to deal with effects and not causes, so we have had a lot of patchwork, ad hoc solutions that do not deal with the overriding issues of growth and wage-price stability...
Until now, Byrne, who took office 13 months ago with a reputation for probity and common sense, has seemed to lack the political wiles to tame the county tigers. While he has been able to put through a number of anticorruption measures, he has lost on other key issues, notably his fiscal program and a controversial bill to revive that fading beach dowager, Atlantic City, by permitting casino gambling there. Ironically, if his budget is passed but no new revenue is found, Byrne may end up as the only state employee to get a salary increase: under a measure enacted...
...shortages, recession, political scandals and assorted other follies provide a perpetual festival for anyone with a grease pencil and a sense of humor? Whatever the reasons, the editorial cartoon is one of America's liveliest and most permanent art forms. As Watergate proved, politics cannot eradicate or even tame journalism. As subsequent events have demonstrated, the reverse is also true. Them damn pictures are likely to enliven the next hundred years-and more. Stefan Kanfer
...wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among the last in the long procession were trains bearing indiscriminate cargoes of men and things. In one car was a cage with an African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...