Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...development experts" in the 1950s often seemed to think they could replicate Europe's 300-year industrial revolution in three years of revolving loan plans. Rather than providing the resuscitating slap on the back which postwar dollars gave Europe, these "modernization" loans went to finance unproductive and hopelessly uncompetitive urban industries. The result was merely to add the new weight of debt to the previous burdens of colonial exploitation...
...recently as last month, the newspaper said, Keith asked other developers to buy $100 tickets to a late May fundraiser for state Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald (D-Boston). Fitzgerald is House chairman of the Housing and Urban Development committee. The Developers Council also turned out in force at a 1986 fundraiser for Fitzgerald's Senate housing committee counterpart, Sen. Frederick Berry (D-Peabody...
...costs U.S. phone companies anywhere from $6.5 million to $11 million a year. Hustlers who might once have peddled drugs or sex offer prospective customers cut-rate telephone calls that are placed by using access codes stolen from long-distance phone companies. The most likely buyers: people waiting in urban bus or train terminals, especially immigrants who might want to call a loved one in a foreign land without having to fork over a fistful of quarters. At New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, the going illegal rate is $2 to call anywhere...
Some Administration officials, following the Reagan ethos of privatizing the public sector, treated their Government jobs as private fiefs. At least Emanuel Savas, an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, preached what he practiced: he used his agency staff to type and proofread a commercial book of his titled, aptly enough, Privatizing the Public Sector. Some officials, having made financial sacrifices to go into Government, evidently felt entitled to recoup as much as possible. C. McClain Haddow, former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, was indicted last month for fraudulently obtaining...
Your article reports the increasing disunity among white South Africans in their attitudes toward apartheid but fails to suggest that black Africans too are far from monolithic. Cleavages exist between the urban and rural blacks, between those in South Africa proper and those in the tribal homelands. It would be impossible to derive majority rule out of South Africa's racial, religious and political melange. The only satisfactory solution would be a confederation system, with several tiers of government. Continuation of the present system or the replacement proposed by the African National Congress would breed chaos and disunity and, eventually...