Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inroads cut in the late 1970s by Hoover Institute economist Thomas Sowell would allow other conservative Black voices to be heard. In the years following Sowell's first publications, comrades emerged: Walter E. Williams, a George Mason University economist, Robert L. Woodson, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and most visible of all, Kennedy School Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury...
...went out of fashion, sitcoms retreated to escapist fluff; now realism and relevance are coming back into vogue. The networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh Wilson, creator of Frank's Place: "If you play Big Band all the time, every so often you want to improvise...
...their fans' deportment that amazed the country, so used to New York City trashing its stadium or Detroit setting fire to the neighborhood. From the first game to the last, both won by the series' MVP Frank Viola, Minnesotans were content to twirl cotton hankies for Kirby Puckett and to blow tin whistles at the Cardinals. Gracious winning was the story of the year in baseball. When Minnesota finally won something, it knew...
Little steps, like the New York City plan, are signs that officials are concerned about helping the mentally ill. The ambitious programs coursing their way through state legislatures to fund more care facilities are even bigger steps. But until concern for solving the problem permeates each neighborhood, each business and each government as deeply as does the illness itself, there will be little progress...
...women are interested in Rosario Salerno, professional women and low-income women who have to work. There just is not enough childcare available," said Karla Rideout, Program Director of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood House in Boston...