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...adds to local costs by establishing new standards, as it did in 1972 for water-treatment plants. Other urban advocates argue that welfare payments should be a federal responsibility, since many tightfisted communities export their poverty burden to more generous cities. New York City's Deputy Mayor Alair Townsend points out, for example, that about 14% of the homeless women and 8% of men living in the city's shelters are from out of town. Says Townsend: "These people gravitate to New York when things get really tough, knowing they will get a better deal here." Some analysts also place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drive to Kill Revenue Sharing | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...that the U.S. would suffer a new inflationary surge if the Government tried to push unemployment down to 3%, as the bishops propose. "The bishops' letter is a resurrection of old policies that are no longer supported by those knowledgeable in economics," said Alan Greenspan, president of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Charles Murray, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, called the proposed pastoral "a restatement of the dogmas of the Great Society" and "a rehash of failed ideas." The bishops, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Am I My Brother's Keeper? | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

StateCandidates Raw Vote % of Vote % of Preciacts Arkansos E--Bill Clinton (D)* 315.594 64 61 Elwood Freeman (R) 179.209 36 Delaware William Quillen (D) 107.736 45 100 E--Michael Castle (R) 133.892 55 Indiana Wayne Townsend (D) 889.906 47 86 E--Robert Orr (R) 995.526 53 Missoun Kenneth Rothman (D) 569.343 41 86 E--John Ashcroft (R) 810.642 59 Montana E--Ted Schwinden (D)* 68.875 70 29 Pat Goodover (R) 26.222 27 New Hampshire Chris Spirou (D) 56.992 34 61 E--John Sununu (R)* 111.283 66 North Carolina Rufus Edmisten(D) 757.479 45 80 E--James Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1984 | See Source »

...fifth congressional district looks something like a pserodactyl. Its tall stretches out to Wess Townsend, the westernmost Lincoln in Middlesex County, the body takes contains the affident, liberal heartland of Concern, Weston, Lincoln and Sudbury and the booming high tech area around Route 128 and Interstate 495. To the north, Lowell and Lawrence, two mill towns trying to stage comebacks stick out like a clumsy head...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Two Democratic Face Offs | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...chauffeuring Harvard's then-new president, James Bryant Conant '14, and his family--which entailed meeting many corporate executives at Back Bay Station en route to meetings of the Overseers. They all chatted amiably with their student chauffeur but the only advice I remember was from Charles Townsend Copeland when I drove him to what must have been one of his very last "Christmas readings...

Author: By William Morris, | Title: Not What Had Been Expected | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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