Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes in the bill by the Senate were all but inevitable. For one thing, oil, gas, utility and other lobbyists who lost in the House are making a maximum effort to protect their interests. Also, the Administration lacks a forceful Senate champion who could steer the program through the upper chamber as Speaker Tip O'Neill did in the House. Russell Long, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and other powerful Senators have been critical of much of Carter's plan. Says one Senate staffer: "The energy program had a cheerleader in the House. It does not in the Senate...
...system's main headache has been the upper and middle class families who have either joined the white flight to the suburbs or sent their children to private schools, greatly upsetting the city's class structure. With a significant part of the educationally oriented populace choosing exit, school politics rarely deal with education, focusing instead on race and patronage. These traditional white working class concerns often have translated into "niggers" and "jobs" in so many school committee campaigns, past and present. The five-member school committee, elected at-large every two years, has never defined any coherent educational goals...
...compound this problem, Boston is unusually small for a major city. Its population of 660,000 occupies an area of land with little room for development. As the middle and upper classes grew, the suburbs became the only place to move. Boston is a white working class community where people consider themselves members of a neighborhood, not of a city. The median income is $9000 in an area which is 10 per cent more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers...
Freddy Lynn launched an eleventh-hour rally by planting an Arroyo fastball in the right-field upper deck to lead off the ninth. But when Rick Burleson drew a walk off Arroyo with two outs, manager Ralph Houk made the call for Foucault, who silenced rookie Ted Cox's loud bat by forcing him into a game-ending...
...memoirs, Mitford appends a mimeographed guide to left usage" she wrote in the late '40's, a takeoff on both her sister Nancy's "Guide to Upper Class Usage" and the C.P.'s stylemxfhetoric. Just as the upper class says "How do you do" instead of "pleased to meet you," the CPUSA would say "The correctness of that policy will be tested in the crucible of struggle" instead of "time will tell whether that plan was O.K. She is loyal to the party's goals, and believes in its integrity, out she misses few chances to poke a little...