EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past week `Young blood' The surprise election of 30-year-old Caprice ca·price n. 1. a. An impulsive change of mind. b. An inclination to change one's mind impulsively. c. Young as president of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Education is a positive sign. It gives hope that the reform movement can still get back on track and turn the district around. `Enough already!' L.A.'s bureaucrats, from the top all the way down, are among the best paid in the nation - even though L.A.'s public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. are among the worst. The new City Council should take it upon itself to correct this imbalance imbalance /im·bal·ance/ (im-bal´ans) 1. lack of balance, such as between two opposing muscles or between electrolytes in the body. 2. dysequilibrium (2). - beginning by cutting its members' salaries. `Nonrefundable' A federal regulatory judge has shot down Gov. Gray Davis' theory that the state energy crisis is the handiwork of a Texas conspiracy. For all his squawking, Davis can't get anyone to buy his story. `Bait-and-switch' A state commission's interpretation of Proposition 34 is yet more evidence that the ``campaign reform'' measure was a cruel hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. . |
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