Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HHFA Director, Weaver followed an essentially inner-city-directed policy rather than attempting to deal with the metropolis as an entity. That approach has attracted criticism. Argues Harvard Business School Economist Raymond Vernon: "To talk about rebuild ing central cities for re-use by people there now is a good political move and a bad social one. Our Eastern cities were built around 1800. What a remarkable coincidence it would be if the density established for those patterns of life happened to be right for 1965!" To such barbs, Weaver retorts frostily: "I'm all for letting people...
...School Committee would be well advised to comply with the state demands. Perhaps the Racial Imbalance Law, in the long run, will be too hard on a city that is losing more and more of its white population; maybe a broader approach bringing in the suburbs, is required...
Crane also suggested that DeGuglielmo approach Harvard, M.I.T., and the Chamber of Commerce for additional cash contributions for the hospital...
...tied down to any limiting political ideology. As a result, he possesses a rare degree of flexibility. In a city whose views on education have become as polarized as those of Boston, progress depends on the ability to compromise, and this in turn depends on a nondoctrinaire approach...
...nations long cynical about motives of the great power, the Peace Corps approach is refreshing...