Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbing frequency, but Wilson contends that because the underclass is overwhelmingly Black, such statistics tend to reinforce racial stereotypes, again focusing attention on individual characterisitcs instead of the deterioration of the ghetto community strucuture. His task is to break through that impediment and to show the structural basis for urban poverty...
...involved less as an overtly political force, which they ceased to be after the union was banned in 1981, than as elder statesmen. But even that presence was too much for Poland's Communist leadership. Charging that Solidarity sought only to "evoke crisis and a confrontation," Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban vowed that the regime "had not, does not and will not talk" with union leaders...
...right man at the right moment," said Mary Bills, a member of the Milwaukee board. "Our urban system is at a crossroads. We lost a large portion of our middle class, and there have been attempts by state legislators to invoke cost controls on our schools," she said...
...either become a Detroit, a New York City, a Cleveland, or we can establish new ground and figure out how to educate urban children. Peterkin is up to the challenge we face," said Bills...
Cambridge's voluntary desegration program, similar to the "magnet schools" system used in several large cities, was recently singled out for praise by Secretary of Education William Bennett. The program, which offers students a "controlled choice" among various programs, has provided a model for other urban school districts...