Word: downtowner
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Chicago's downtown Metro High School has created a course in energy careers. Students pursue individual projects, such as assessing the effectiveness of the city's fuel use, and are aided by Shaeffer & Roland, an environmental management firm. Says Teacher Frances Vandervoort, grandly: "By 1980 there a will be 300,000 jobs in solar energy alone, and we are helping prepare our students for these opportunities." At suburban Evanston Township High School, an architectural drawing program includes the study of solar heating, wind generators and maximum use of insulation. At a recent science fair at Brooklyn's Roy Mann Intermediate...
...canals and railroads in the 19th century has the U.S. displayed a more magnetic attraction to overseas investors. Foreign money from almost everywhere is flooding into co-op apartments in Manhattan and Miami condominiums, sprawling petrochemical complexes in Houston and quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description. The money is going into farm land, ranch land and waterfront resort communities...
...Jimmy Hoffa deserves better. I took some of the last still photographs of Hoffa at his Michigan home. Some carpenters were building a new porch for him, and one of the men wanted to "go downtown for some stuff." Hoffa whipped out a pencil, grabbed a shingle and began writing down the crew's shopping list, then headed for his car to fill the list himself. "Why are you going?" I asked Jimmy. He winked at me and said, "You know how these union guys are -you send them downtown for nails and they end up having...
SOME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface in downtown Luanda, the capital of Angola, with signs bearing the gold star symbol of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They did it in spite of the official 2 a.m. curfew imposed by the Portuguese Army, who were everywhere in their clattering three-man jeeps with the American-made .50-caliber machine-guns peeking out over the windshields. It's possible that the Portuguese looked the other way--after their bitter 15-year guerrilla war against...
Under the 1976 plan ordered by Federal District Court Judge William M. Taylor, the Dallas school district was divided into six subdistricts. Two were relatively isolated from downtown Dallas: Oak Cliff, 98% black; and Seagoville, 85% white. In those two areas, school officials promised that even though the races were segregated, they would get "equal" education−a promise that obviously ran counter to the spirit of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...