Word: vacuumed
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Moreover, New York's plight cannot be viewed in a vacuum; we mus recognize the impact of the national economy on it and other cities. New York is now one of the most expensive places in America to live. And the city's deficit is by far the highest, but not because municipal union workers have demanded too much money--although admittedly, some of the union's pension policies need reforms--but because of an economy besieged by inflation, due in part to massive defense spending and unrestrained monopoly corporations' continual price raising...
When Cambridge adopted its present from of government, Plan E--a good government instrument that attempts to separate city administration from politics by hiring a city manager to make up the budget and execute business--in 1939, few would have predicted that it would cause a vacuum of leadership that only a boss like Crane could fill...
...higher rates of crime, fraud, political corruption, and generally lower standards of ethics than the East. He theorizes that where there is a high rate of migration (450,000 annually), no stable class structure, and no traditions by which people's actions can be judged, a sort of moral vacuum results and the only principle held inviolable is profit. The population of the Rim has doubled since World War II, from 40 million to 80 million, primarily from an influx of what Sale terms "the discontented classes." Sale advances Nathaniel West's argument in The Day of the Locust: people...
...though anti-Franco forces appear well organized, Womack said, the army will emerge as the real force in a power vacuum...
...industrial accidents, few are messier than oil spills. Floating booms can contain surface oil and keep it from spreading while it is picked up and recovered by giant vacuum cleaners. Straw filters can be used to pick up oil that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity...