EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Goodbye, Gipper After 93 years, former President Ronald Reagan has left this world - a freer and better place for the remarkable life he lived. History's judgment will be more than favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. . Landed gentry Noun 1. landed gentry - the gentry who own land (considered as a class) squirearchy gentry, aristocracy - the most powerful members of a society landed gentry n (Brit) → While the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open has acted in the popular interest of Californians by conserving priceless price·less adj. 1. Of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Highly amusing, absurd, or odd: a priceless remark. acres of open space, the broken system under which it operates needs rethinking. Dangerous politics The stakes are too high - and the potential consequences too severe - to let California's share of federal anti-terrorism funding fall prey to the usual Washington spoils spoil v. spoiled or spoilt , spoil·ing, spoils v.tr. 1. a. To impair the value or quality of. b. To damage irreparably; ruin. 2. game. Hope in Sacramento For the first time in a very long while, the budget picture in Sacramento is looking a little bit brighter, but a lot of hard work needs to be done, and tough decisions still need to be made. |
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