Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celebrezze headquarters is heavily staffed by Harvard people. Ira Forman '74, campaign manager, came back to Harvard in December to recruit, and with the aid of Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL) staffers he nailed down two undergraduates who were looking for excuses to flee after exams...
...Walter Matsinger arrived 2½ years ago, as he was stalled in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam on his way home from work as a carpenter's apprentice in Philadelphia. "This is it," Matsinger said to himself. He knew that he had to leave the city, to flee its crime, its pollution and impersonality, its high social anger. Suddenly, he recalls, "the whole area where I grew up seemed old and drab." Bachelor Matsinger went home, packed and headed for the Southwest. Today he is happily settled in Tucson, Ariz., where he works as a mason...
...cities, the cycle is as depressingly vicious as it is familiar. Businesses decamp; the young, the middle class, the skilled, the well educated flee; the tax base erodes. So taxes go even higher, driving out still more productive, wage-earning families. Says George Sternlieb of Rutgers University's Center for Urban Policy Research: "We have no experience in shaping decline. No graceful way of shrinking a city. We don't know what to do with people left in a city for whom there are no job opportunities." Although the solutions are elusive, it is clear that the cities...
...angel of extermination," as Anne Frank called Mengele in her diary, was not arrested after the war. He lived openly in Bavaria until 1951, when pressure to bring him to justice forced his retreat to the havens of Argentina and Paraguay. Only when Israeli agents came hunting did he flee to the cover of a German settlement in the Paraguayan jungle. Presumably he is still there, drinking Chilean Riesling and reminiscing about the Third Reich...
...residents, the plans signify a lack of faith on Hill's part. Some of them say they believe the proposal will no doubt be forced through, making them flee their neighborhood for no good reason and then have to pay substantially for it later...