Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many of the 800 Vietnam veterans and unemployed inner city residents hired under the Public Employment Program will go back on welfare and unemployment compensation, at a time when the city itself is cutting back 1600 employees...
...movies are made for the tube, announces a defensive film buff down at the other end of the bar. He tells of the emerging genres: black films with superheroes carpet bombing the inner cities; hetero, homo-and bi-sexual hits; Andy Warhol spectaculars that may yet replace Seconal; and of course, the constantly refilled pornucopia...
...Geddes) that he is falling in love with a nubile student. Being the rare wife who is the first to know does not prevent Katy from being cataclysmically shaken by her husband's startling don't-kiss-but-tell confession. Bel Geddes beautifully conveys outward bravado and inner terror...
Supply rooms have become as barren as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. "There's never enough paper," complains a teacher at an inner city elementary school. "So far this year I've bought ten reams of paper myself. It's a matter of protecting your own sanity -when you see a kid without anything to do, you've got to get him a pencil and a piece of paper...
There are other reasons, of course, for the financial crisis of city schools. A major one is the decay of the inner cities, with the resulting shrinkage or stagnation of property values. In Chicago the tax base-the total assessed value of the city's taxable property-edged up 22% in the past decade, while the cost of operating its schools zoomed...