Word: projects
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...Like most missionary families, the Luces lived not among the Chinese but inside walled compounds, alongside other American and English clergy. The contrast between the ordered world of the missionary community and the harsh social and physical landscape outside it reinforced the assumptions driving the missionary project in China: the unquestioned belief in the moral superiority of Christianity and the cultural superiority of America; and the commitment to show the way not just to the love of Christ but also to a modern, scientific social order. The image of America that Luce had as a child was the idealized...
...discos are strobe light-years removed from the borax boites of the '60s--most of which died a well-deserved death. In place of the tacky, bare-wall closets wired for din, push and crush, the best new places project sensuality, exclusivity and luxury. And they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good restaurants and pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings...
Tulane first came to the attention of HUD with a proposal it submitted offering to use the resources of the university to help one housing project. What the university got instead, in a deal cut by then HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was full authority over the housing of 55,000 people--10% of the city's population--in 10 projects. The agreement allowed Tulane senior vice president Ron Mason, the new de facto head of HANO, to undertake a complete reorganization of the agency...
...unit project called C.J. Peete, residents have been recruited to do maintenance and help with security and job placement. "It used to be nobody paid attention to what we were saying," says Augusta Kerry, head of C.J. Peete's resident council. "Now they listen, and we do things together...
CAPE CANAVERAL: International Space Station? More like "The Blob." Just as President Clinton was hailing the "football field"-sized station in his tribute to Colonel Eileen Collins Thursday, NASA was making yet another announcement that the project would cost more -- and take even longer -- to complete than previously thought...