Word: wichitas
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...plight of New York could give cities a bad name. To avoid that kind of guilt by association, the justly proud city of Wichita has launched a hard-to-crash National Alliance of Financially Responsible Local Governments. Membership standards require that a city actually collect money before it is counted as revenue, indulge in no long-term debt to finance current operating and maintenance expenses, and, of course, have its budget in the black. The group's purpose is to see that all the members keep on measuring up, and not incidentally, to have another selling point in marketing...
...should grow. Instead of the planners' vision of broad boulevards in town and garden communities on the outskirts, the illegal building has spawned a chaotic jumble of drab office and apartment towers on narrow, treeless streets. By one estimate, 300,000 people-the equivalent of the population of Wichita,Kans.-now live or work in buildings erected without construction permits...
...from Wichita, Kansas, as is his roommate Don Nicholson, this year's secretary general of the Harvard National Model United Nations. In a suite adjoining Wee and Nicholson's, lives Clark Pellett, from Atlantic, Iowa, who was secretary-general of last year's Harvard Model United Nations along with Jarius DeWalt, who is from a small town in New York. Twice every year they and some other Harvard students run a mock United Nations conference for high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that are intended...
...Recession? Depression? Yes, we have one every day for one hour . . . But all the other hours of the day things are just great here in Wichita. We. . . believe the best way to keep on top is to accentuate the positive and minimize the negative. . . a continuing bright outlook will keep it that...
...advertisement by a men's store in the Wichita newspapers was arresting, topped by photographs of the anchormen from the evening news programs of the three major networks. The point was, of course, that the nightly fare of dismal national economic news so far means little to Kansas' largest city, where unemployment is only half the U.S. average and industry is still healthy (TIME...