Word: basing
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...Party ladder, he was more a follower of aggressive black politicians than a force in his own right. Having spent most of his career in Harlem, he has few close links to the boisterous community leaders in Brooklyn, where 42% of the city's African Americans reside. His political base among the swelling ranks of Caribbean and Asian immigrants clustered in the borough is virtually nonexistent...
Dinkins has filled many of the top posts in his administration with outsiders, such as Police Commissioner Lee Brown (recruited from Houston) and Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers (from Indianapolis), who have no experience in New York's intricate local politics. "His executive core provides him with no political base," says Mitchell Moss, director of the Urban Research Center at New York University...
...then it was too late. The accordion proliferated like the South American killer bee, joining the family of base instruments that includes the comb and tissue paper, the bagpipe and the exhaust pipe. Today an estimated 75,000 accordionists can be observed running amuck across the U.S., competing in squeeze-offs. In self-defense, they are banded together in associations presided over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when...
Municipal officials have pushed lawmakers to keep 1991's local aid appropriation at the same funding level for 1990. Keverian said, however, the $210 million would not be considered part of the funding base...
Warned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...