Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although some urban liberals are working to legalize Laetrile, the campaign is led by the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, based in Los Altos, Calif., which is dominated by right-wingers, including members of the John Birch Society. Well-financed and well-organized, the group claims to have 25,000 members, including a few Communists, meeting in 450 local committees across the country...
Jeremiahs Needed. The true outrage of The Abuse of Power, however, rises not from its flaws but from its truths. If many of the specifics have been sporadically reported, if criminals have often been called to account, urban systems still manage to fend off basic reform. They will continue to do so until voters decide otherwise. For that millennium to occur, there need to be more Jeremiahs like Newfield willing to howl their grim, invaluable message over and over again. It cannot be heard by too many citizens, or heeded by too many cities...
Carla Anderson Hills, LL.D., former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Eudora Welty, Litt.D., writer...
While working on a doctorate on populism at Emory University in 1969, Powell wrote to Carter suggesting that Jimmy was the right candidate to bridge the gap between urban and rural Georgians. "He was wrong," recalls Jordan, who thought that Carter's hopes lay mostly in rural areas, "but it was a good letter anyway." On the strength of it, Powell was invited to attend a meeting of student volunteers at Miss Lillian's pond house near Plains. "Jody stood out right away," says Jordan. "He was the only old man among all those kids." Then 26, Powell...
...urban dweller knows, the U.S. is quite literally going to the dogs -to say nothing of cats, canaries, parakeets, turtles and, indeed, a whole Noah's ark of creatures. Accompanying the pet population explosion is the spectacular growth of medical care dedicated solely to Fido, Fifi, Polly and friends. There are now 30,000 doctors of veterinary medicine in the U.S., and the number is rising. In addition, there are more than 1,000 U.S. and Canadian animal hospitals. These range from small storefront one-doctor facilities to such gleaming temples of animal care as the nine-story Animal...