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...Tide fans walked silently out of the stadium. In the parking lot, there was time for a consoling drink before the long drive home. Coed Vicki Schneider sobbed uncontrollably for an hour after the game. Says she: "It was the next morning before I could accept the loss and regain my faith in the Tide...
...social programs made them solidly Democratic. Unable to prevent F.D.R. from being elected to four terms, the Republicans seemed to be retired into permanent opposition. The G.O.P. split into two groups?liberal internationalists and conservative isolationists, a division that hindered a recovery at the polls. The party did not regain the presidency until
...Delaunays unawares; they were in Portugal, and they stayed there and in Spain until 1920. In so doing Delaunay missed the horrors of the front, as Leger, Braque and Apollinaire did not. But for some reason his painting, after he got back to Paris, was never quite to regain the life-affirming energy of his prewar work...
...were economic institutions founded by workers in response to their loss of control over local markets due to rapid industrialization and specialization. Craftsmen's local markets and skilled laborers were threatened by competition, wage cuts and exploitation. Trade unions met these threats, according to this theory, through attempts to regain control over just the labor market. Commons's theories have met with much criticism by historians, particularly for their failure to anticipate unionization outside craft and skilled labor industries, that is, in mass-production industries...
Even with all the money and effort going into the rebuilding of downtowns across the U.S., a hard question remains: Can American cities regain their health? The answer depends in large part on how successful the cities are in stemming -or reversing-the outward flow of middle-class residents. New York, which badly overestimated the market during the office-building boom of the '60s,* has boldly built its "new town" of Roosevelt Island to do just that...