Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month Venezuela experienced three days of strife and rioting, when the government raised the price of gasoline by lowering the subsidy on the fossil fuel and increased urban bus fares by 30 percent. The chaotic days left 300 people dead, 2000 injured, and another 2000 in jail...
...That kind of thing has been studied for years," said Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, a professor of urban planning and public police at the Graduate School of Design. Proposals for a circumferential route have usually been rejected, he said, because "it would cost mucho buckos...
Maybe Mike Leigh's High Hopes is too realistic and too intricate to be called a nursery rhyme for moderns. But he and his actors and designers do push out beyond the purely naturalistic. All the figures in his dismal urban landscape carry a carefully calculated moral weight, and their story is clearly intended as a microcosmic portrait of contemporary English life. So call it, perhaps, a fable on the sneak. And call it something else too: yet another carefully handmade ornament of the new British cinema, which includes such small recent marvels as My Beautiful Laundrette; Rita...
...guerrillas' bold entry into the region, together with a sudden surge in F.M.L.N. urban violence, is a graphic demonstration of what even the Bush Administration privately acknowledges is the F.M.L.N.'s improved military prowess. Despite the infusion of $3.4 billion in American aid over the past eight years, the Salvadoran government is not even close to winning the civil war. Troops killed most of the guerrilla leaders in the west eight years ago, forcing the F.M.L.N. out of the area. The rebels' return underscores their new strength and the army's inability to vanquish them permanently...
...proposed line were built, it would relieve congestion around the Med School, said William H. Colehower, an urban planner for Harvard's planning group who is following the proposal...