Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor at what was once the training ground for the nation's privileged elite. He witnessed four murders while growing up in a tenement building in the South Bronx...
David was born in Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx in 1948 and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a community that included blacks, whites, Asians, Jews, Catholics, Buddhists and other groups...
...nuclear engineer by training, the Bronx-born Carnesale's research and teaching focused on issues of nuclear weapons and national security policy...
Rubin's other domestic priority is unusual for a Treasury Secretary: lifting the blight from America's desperate inner cities. He has made a point of visiting New York City's troubled South Bronx and crumbling areas of Chicago and Los Angeles to underscore his belief that extra capital and market incentives can bring rejuvenation. "It's sort of a Nixon-going-to-China approach," he explains. Specifically, Rubin wants to increase funding to a network of community-development banks across the nation, expand their inner-city small-loan programs and reach out to roughly 10 million low-income Americans...
...Academy Awards on one channel, staring at the shimmering people. And then I flipped to another channel where the news was showing some 80 dead bodies swaddled in body bags on the floor of an auditorium. They were the victims of the Happy Land social club fire in the Bronx. Flip: the Academy Awards. Flip: the dead of the Bronx. I wondered how these things fit together in the world. Would there be a movie made of the Happy Land fire? Would it win an Oscar...