Word: blight
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Axis. 13 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2437. Urban Blight and Second Step on Thursday, Nov. 5. DJ Debo Downstairs and DJ David James upstairs on Friday...
...whatever area is carved out as the "zone." The idea is that businesses will crop up in the enterprise zone in order to avoid taxes and regulations, which are eased in most enterprise zone plans. The zones, of course, are intended to be areas of high unemployment and urban blight that need businesses and the jobs they bring most...
...loss, educational decay, a society in which over half of America's male middle schoolers believe it's okay to force sex on a woman they are dating. We still worry about the poor. We still worry about crumbling public schools. We still worry about racial division, urban blight and anti-gay attitudes...
...heroes: a radically righteous Mr. Smith tilting against the liberal establishment, both creative and critical. And many people will buy his book for the reason he thinks they would go to movies: to see their political virtue expressed in public. But censorious guidelines for behavior will not eradicate the blight, if such it is. People will have to stop going, buying, renting. Until that G-rated day comes to pass, Medved might lighten up and read some other book. We suggest The Golden Turkey Awards, a humorous survey of legendary bad movies. It ought to be in Medved's library...
Orchard Professor in the History of LandscapeDevelopment John R. Stilgoe predicts that in thecoming years, many of Harvard's familiar treeswill succumb to the blight...