Word: woodson
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...already encouraged several in Florida. Though he had expected to be easily renominated by his party for next year's gubernatorial race, Martinez must now overcome a primary challenge from pro-choice Republican State Senator Marlene Woodson-Howard. Anxious not to revive old charges that he is an indecisive leader, Martinez has vowed to reintroduce the defeated bills when the legislature meets in regular session next April. He dismisses the notion that he may have suffered politically. "When you're functioning out of conviction," he says, "you can't think of politics...
Conservative black scholar Robert Woodson argues that "people change their behavior in order to stay in Kenilworth-Parkside. It's a class-specific solution in which poor people help themselves." Woodson, whose National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise helps promote tenant management throughout the U.S., says that "the federal and state governments have spent nearly $1 trillion over the past 20 years in a largely failed effort to fight poverty. Now Kimi and others are taking it out of the hands of professionals and giving jobs to tenants...
Gray is the first to admit that tenant management and ownership are not the only antidotes to public housing and welfare, but she insists that her efforts can be duplicated elsewhere. "There are thousands of Kimi Grays in America who are willing to try," she says. Woodson agrees: "Kimi and other leaders are the last best hope for many of these public-housing projects. Tenant managers can't offer guarantees, but they hold great promise. The only thing worse than poverty is accepting the status...
McGwire, just 1-for-13 in the Series, swung at a first-pitch fastball and popped it straight up to first baseman Tracy Woodson. Howell finished for a save in the same ballpark where fans constantly booed him last year when he pitched...
...increasingly antagonistic Reagan administration, it looked as if inroads cut in the late 1970s by Hoover Institute economist Thomas Sowell would allow other conservative Black voices to be heard. In the years following Sowell's first publications, comrades emerged: Walter E. Williams, a George Mason University economist, Robert L. Woodson, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and most visible of all, Kennedy School Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury...