Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached a boiling point in February when the private banks, apparently fed up with the chronic budgetary ills of Albany and New York City, refused to bid on bonds issued by the state's Urban Development Corporation. The UDC, created by the legislature mainly to finance low-cost ghetto housing, could not pay off $104.5 million in one-year notes. The state was forced to undertake an exceedingly costly rescue operation to save the agency from bankruptcy...
...nice to see so many Americans open their kind hearts to donate food, clothing and money to those refugee children who are being brought to the U.S.? But what about the starving black child in the ghetto, the poor Indian on the reservation, or the ragged-clothed youngster in Appalachia? Where can they flee to? How many special funds are set up for them...
...ambiguous figure in the Simple stories: a proud member of the Arts and Letters Club, she strives constantly for "culture" (white culture) and a house in the integrated suburbs and becomes the Uncle Tom of the show. But Joyce also represents Simple's ambition of rising beyond ghetto life and his job as a clerk--the hope which makes waking up in the morning worthwhile. Neither Cross's script nor Davis's acting adequately portray this other side of Joyce, the loving wife whom Simple treasures even as he mockers her upper-class pretensions...
...kinds of statistics are different. "A candidate can come out of DeWitt Clinton, a tough school in the Bronx, New York, and be first in his class and have a 290 verbal," one admissions officer said, "so rank in class generally doesn't tell you anything out of ghetto schools...
Sergeant Dale Jackson returns to his Detroit ghetto home in a morphine induced stupor, drained by emotional stress and battle fatigue. After an initial feeling of release, he grows despondent, spending most of his days lying in bed staring at the ceiling. Tortured by a recurring nightmare in which he stands looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional...