Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.N.P. at the rate of $1.8 million, as against only $268,000 in the U.S. By similar measure, each inhabited acre in Japan has eight times as many autos as America-and air pollution has become so bad that Tokyo officials recently recommended a total ban on passenger cars downtown between 7 and 9 a.m. The nation's production of garbage and other trash has climbed to 35 million tons a year, up from 23.8 million tons five years ago, and Tokyo's few clumps of trees will be destroyed within 50 years if nothing is done...
COMMUNAL CENTERS. The converted Southern mansion near downtown Atlanta looks like a good boardinghouse, but the 61 residents are all convicts involved in the most controversial of the proposed alternatives to prison. On the theory that the isolation of prisons is one of their biggest weaknesses, many critics have proposed putting groups of convicts into relatively small quarters in ordinary residential areas. Florida now has 28 such community corrections centers-and has had a predictable difficulty in adding others. "Everybody likes the program," says Community Services Administrator Don Hassfurder. "They think there should be community corrections centers-some place else...
...storefront insurance office is bombed, the police find his body in the debris but no trace of the $250,000 that he and his partner had stashed in the company safe. Shaft starts to track the money down, a process that eventually involves him with some shady types from Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky, mindlessly sexy playmates. Compared with last year's Shaft original, Shaft's Big Score is more elaborate, a lot glossier and finally duller. Shaft himself suggests that the black man's ultimate goal is to live high, smash faces...
WITH enlightened civic leadership and one of the nation's fastest-climbing skylines, Atlanta rode the urban-renewal wave of the '60s with pleasing-and well-publicized-results. But where many other cities have grown disillusioned with their downtown business districts-in spite of all the new civic centers, office buildings, freeways and other signs of progress-Atlanta, which in 1970 became 51% black in population, seems determined to use the first round of renewal as the down payment on a second, even bigger round in the '70s. Moreover, the courtly businessmen and politicians who engineered...
...bombing wave which the IRA has said aims at wrecking Londonderry's economy also roared on. Bombs blasted a fertilizer factory in the IRA-controlled Catholic bogside district, a barricaded area closed off to the army and police, and a downtown wholesale grocery. In both cases gunmen who planted the bombs gave warning and there were no casualties...