Word: whited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope: "They loved him at the White House--finally, a Catholic who wasn't running for something...
...cylinders of high-level waste, 1.7 million slightly larger containers of intermediate-level waste and 2 million 55-gallon drums of low-level waste. "Existing sites are going to fill up and the demand keeps increasing," warns Theodore Greenwood, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who served on a White House task force that examined the issued. In short, as Greenwood laments, "we badly need more sites...
...Darryl Williams could have forced Boston voters to look at the alternative candidate a little more closely. But the recent violence, as the mayor asserts (and is having police commissioner Joseph Jordan prove), is more isolated than it was in 1974 and 1975. Local media polls indicate that White will still win the election...
...Kevin White seems to have convinced citizens he can run a city in which both the new gentry and the middle class can live. The trend, however, is squeezing the poor. Both poor blacks and poor whites will find the pressures of living in an urban Beverly Farms--with higher property values and a more liberal social climate--too much to bear. Those that can afford to save enough will move to Quincy, Milton and the other inner suburbs; those who cannot will turn on the nearest and most vulnerable scapegoat--each other...
Both City Hall and satisfied residents will ignore the problems of these groups, though. The whites of West Roxbury and the liberals of the Back Bay will tire of the racial confusion and turn to chiding the poor for disrupting their comfortable city. Politically, the importance of the poor will dwindle as they make up a diminishing portion of the electorate. Blacks, students, tenants and poor whites simply don't vote in large enough numbers to make a difference. Socially they will be the outcast of both the affluent newcomers and the Irish establishment. The real challenge of the next...