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Morris tries, almost successfully, to balance the amount of commentary and observation--political and social--with a fair amount of cute little anecdotes about her spur-of-the-moment picnics on the Swiss hillsides or her random run-ins with Margaret Thatcher on a busy street...
...feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...
Fagen said he hoped more publicity about the problem would spur the faculty and the administration to take more action...
...fellow Democrats. The failure of Clinton's health care plan in 1995 and the subsequent GOP conquest of Capitol Hill in the mid-term elections seemed to verify this trend. But, it was also predicted that the victories of the moderate Rudolph Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman would spur a rush back to the center for the Republican Party after their 1992 losses under the conservative banner. (If the infamous House Republicans and the '96 GOP Presidential candidates are any guide, this was certainly not the case...
...insisted on, and got, strict limits to the height of the buildings. And they hated the idea of culture-curious hoi polloi, 1.3 million of them expected each year, looking down into their backyards. One woman feared that visitors to the Getty would look across the valley from a spur on the site and see her sunbathing by her pool. Meier took her up to this promontory and asked her to point out her house. She gazed about. "I can't see it right now," she said, "but I know it's out there somewhere." The vantage point was turned...