Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked hard to improve race relations, especially between black residents and a white-dominated police force. Three years later, Henry Ford led the formation of Detroit Renaissance, a group made up of chief executives of the major corporations in the city. This power elite had the financial clout to rebuild the downtown, which was so deserted after the riots that Young says: "You could have shot a cannon down any of the major thoroughfares at night and not hit anyone...
...elected first President of Iran's Islamic Republic last January with 76% of the vote-a seemingly invincible mandate. He had the confidence and blessing of the all-powerful Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who bestowed upon him command of the armed forces. Confident and ebullient, he promised to rebuild Iran's battered economy in accordance with the Islamic socialist theories he had developed as a doctoral student at the Sorbonne. Yet somehow Abolhassan Banisadr, 46, has become the saddest political casualty of the Islamic Republic; his clerical enemies in the Revolutionary Council have reduced him to a figurehead chief...
Previous federal projects to rebuild urban centers have usually been costly failures. Sponsors of this plan argue that it might just prove the simplest and best way to revitalize inner cities...
...federal employees. There is no reason why political appointees cannot be as qualified as any others, argues Peters, and they would want to produce in order to help the President get reelected. Such a change would "allow the President to move the machinery of Government," and enable him "to rebuild the political parties as bulwarks against the threat of single-issue politics." Now all Peters has to do is persuade Washington-anybody in Washington-to go along...
...priority is people." Replied Carter: "What do you need specifically?" Ray spelled out her answer: "M-O-N-E-Y." In fact, before leaving Washington, D.C., Carter had declared the mountain's vicinity a federal disaster area, making residents eligible for low-interest federal loans to rebuild their shattered houses and businesses. In addition, he rather oddly suggested that residents might eventually make some money from the catastrophe. Said he: "People will come from all over the world to observe the impressiveness of the force of nature...