Word: inner
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College seniors from across the nation are being recruited by a new organization of recent graduates formed to improve teaching in America's inner cities and rural areas...
LOOKING at the condition of the inner cities, the environment, the infrastructure and education in this country, it seems as if the United States has just been through...
...inner cities give evidence to this neglect. Drugs threaten to make life unliveable for millions of ordinary people who fear to walk down the street in their neighborhoods. AIDS, poverty and homelessness are related problems that have been overlooked and imperil the lives of many Americans...
...Asian-Americans, the reality of inner-city crime, drug use and poverty is testified to by the Chinatowns, Korea-towns, and Vietnamese and Cambodian neighborhoods that lie in the heart of some of America's largest cities. The lives of Asian immigrants are scarred by the same kinds of racism that have welcomed all "ethnics" to this country...
...passage of time permits deeper reflection. These two books, though treating different phases of Nixon's career and offering contrasting styles of - biography, point toward a fresh view. All the familiar sins and successes are rehearsed, along with the inner torment that destroyed Nixon's judgment. But he also begins to appear as much more a product of his time and place than many care to admit. If he frequently exploited the country's most base instincts, he also reflected legitimate resentments. The silent majority he mobilized survived him, eventually evolving into the right-wing populist movement that anointed Ronald...