Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic way of handling things...
...Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than the traditional American optimism that says, "However miserable the present may be, there is always hope for the future...
Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pre-eminent voice of the just aspirations and long-suffering patience of black America...
Time Inc. President James A. Linen stressed his company's interest in the city of Newark. "In spite of recent problems of racial conflict and urban blight," he said, "we have been most impressed with the community's remarkable spirit and resiliency. In keeping with the Newark News's tradition of community service, we hope and believe that we can make a significant contribution to the city's growth and well-being...
...Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal urban programs into a coherent attack on blight. Under Johnson, moreover, private enterprise for the first time assumed an active role in the rehabilitation of the nation's cities