Word: underway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renewal and rehabilitation. In 1960 we made the Washington Park Project a matter of first priority. Contrary to the lamentations of some in the last campaign, thousands of new apartment houses, low income "221d3" apartment houses were built; literally hundreds of individual rehabilitation jobs have been completed or are underway; a new YMCA, a new Boys' Club, a new community shopping center, and many other improvements in Washington Park have been built where formerly there existed only squalor and hopelessness. This is not to say we have done enough. But we made a start...
Some construction projects whose fundraising drives are just getting underway had hoped to ask for federal grants, but their chances of success are sharply reduced under the new budget. The Chemistry-Biology building, part of the new Science Drive, faces this problem...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley has bitterly declared that he will brook no trouble from would-be demonstrators when the Democratic Convention gets underway in August. "I think the great mass of American people has had enough of those who carry Viet Cong flags in the streets of this country, and are getting fed up with the cry of police brutality," he told his wildly applauding City Council...
...said yesterday that the Center will be operating on a budget of about two million dollars a year. Fund-raising is already underway, Lee said, with governments and large foundations as the principal targets...
...Each Cuban is allowed only a quarter pound of beef a week, and milk is reserved for children under seven, and the aged over 65. So the Cubans themselves still do not receive direct benefits from the strides being made by the livestock industry. Although serious diversification efforts are underway, Cuba still has the kind of economy it has always had--one inextricably based on sugar...