Word: ellensburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small towns live below the poverty line. Then, too, it is only an unusual small town that does not have a dilapidated neighborhood to which the citified word slum might be applied. Says Anthropologist Clayton Denman of Central Washington University, founder and head of the Small Towns Institute at Ellensburg, Wash.: "Small towns are facing problems that are much the same as the cities' problems, except for scale...