Word: blight
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...most, the "B.U. Divest" sign seemed innocuous. But not to Silber. Every time the loose-lipped administrator turned around to admire the view, the offending message called out to Silber like a blight on the landscape. Bruce Springsteen posters and foreign flags were one thing, but posters criticizing the university were quite another...
...north, called the Baixada Fluminense, is one of the most violent stretches of urban blight in the world. Its streets are besieged, its laws ignored, its people embattled and its children exploited. An annual inflation rate of 1,765% aggravates the huge gap between rich and poor. "Children learn to steal because they are hungry," says human rights lawyer Fernando Rodrigues. "If the problems of the distribution of wealth and the elimination of hunger are not solved, there is no way one can expect to reduce the violence in the streets...
...Afro-Am has consistently had difficulty retaining junior faculty. Should it suprise anyone that promising young professors like David W. Blight, who departed for Amherst College last year, leave the department as soon as they get a promising offer from somewhere else? If you were Carolivia Herron, would you jump at the tenure offers from other schools, or wait for the Harvard offer that will probably never come...
...oriented businesses of important constitutional protections. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court struck down the licensing portion of a 1986 city ordinance that strictly regulated adult bookstores and movie houses through zoning, licensing and inspection requirements. While endorsing the law's attempt to root out the urban blight and crime associated with such enterprises, the court concluded that the licensing scheme amounted to an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on speech because it did not impose a time limit for acting on applications and did not provide for prompt judicial review. However, the court unanimously upheld the Dallas ordinance...
...same time, McGuane rejects the charge that he has turned his back on reality by retreating to "a kind of Early American theme park." To McGuane, both urban blight and rural isolation are symptoms of a deeper problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana...