Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...available recruits. Of her husband's staff, says a close ally, "she thinks they are fairly weak, with little backbone and little courage." At the worst moment of his presidency, after the 1994 election wipeout, sources tell TIME, Hillary was even privately advocating the firing of much of the upper echelon of the White House staff. So she needed some kindred spirits to shape the strategy, people who could double as surrogates in the conversations that could not possibly take place in front...
...Some people] cannot afford to live in Cambridge [any more]," Duehay says. "It's becoming more of an upper-middle class than a diverse community, and that is inevitable with the loss of rent-control...
Then we are off again, to fly farther south and east to the Maroon Saramaccan village of Asindopo in the region of the Upper Suriname River. Asindopo means "sit down and hope"--a welcome thought to its original settlers, runaway slaves from Dutch plantations in the 18th century. We go by corjal to visit their descendants. Some are swimming; some are washing clothes in the river; some are staring at us. The faces of the children are a cross between innocence and gravity. On a far bank, a glorious ceiba rises to the sky. It is called the "house...
Sadly, the President's Cabinet, like the upper echelons of most corporations, remains more like baseball in 1947 than basketball in the '90s. So few blacks have risen to that level that the rules governing first blacks still apply. That is why black parents, including Espy's, admonish their children that they must be twice as prepared--and twice as honest--as their white counterparts if they want to succeed. And why during the glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures...
...growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed by the murrelet, a seabird that flies to Washington's forests--farther away every year because of logging--to feed its young...