Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...course there are slums and there are slums, as Spiro Agnew did not know. Every impoverished area of New York is a few notches better off than Charlotte Street, but that fact gives no consolation to those who live in sagging wooden tenements or in squat red apartment houses with laundry strung like paper necklaces from window to window. In the summers what passes for life in these areas moves out to the fire escapes or up to the roofs among the antenna forests, or out to the doorways where teen-agers and their elders mill, hang out and wait...
...more to tighter eligibility rules and to the rooting out of welfare cheats and frauds. At present the city pays about $1.2 billion out of its own tax revenues for aid to dependent children, or exactly the amount projected as the city deficit in 1982. Nearly everyone in the know, from Koch to former Mayor (and now senatorial candidate) John Lindsay, agrees that the solution is for the Federal Government to pick up New York's welfare burden. To date, only the Federal Government has not agreed...
...hundred supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini gathered last week in Washington's Lafayette Square, they were pelted with eggs, soft tomatoes and ripe fruit by an angry crowd of flag-waving Americans. "Go home! Go home!" shouted a gray-haired woman. Yelled a teenager: "The Shah would know how to deal with you. He'd have you beheaded...
...warnings, a few stubborn Texans refused to move from the path of the oncoming storm. "It's been 19 years since a hurricane crossed the coast," said Cecil Palmer of the National Weather Service's Houston office. "We have many newcomers who don't know what a hurricane is all about and many oldtimers who feel, 'Well, I rode it out before and I can do it again...
...strike may go into extra innings. The last walkout by the actors ran for six weeks in 1960. This one could go on even longer, for both sides know that the out come will determine, for years to come, how the industry will divide the profits from the new technology: pay TV, video discs and video cassettes. "It is important that this strike not be minimized," says Winkler, almost unrecognizable behind a thick beard. "Ninety-eight percent of actors aren't as fortunate as I am. If we don't do this...