Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "Dead Dictators and Rioting Mobs," published by Huntington and Richard K. Betts in Winter 1985-1986, before Marcos was out. In this article, the authors include numerous tables, entitled for instance: "Calorie Consumption as Percentage of Daily Requirement and Instability First Year After Death [of Dictator]"; "Urban Population and Instability First Year After Death"; "Literacy and Instability First Year After Death"; "Annual Growth GPD Per Capita and Instability First Year After Death"; with percentages, numbers, and items like "Extensive," "Moderate," "Limited," "None," "Total." I already question the meaning of these tables per se. But in addition, the authors follow...
...principal reason for this massive influx of population into the urban areas is, of course, the intensification of the war following the commitment of American combat troops...
Want to buy some air pollution? In smoggy Los Angeles and other U.S. urban areas, pollution brokers match companies in the market for a chunk of pollutable air with businesses that are operating below their pollution quota...
...that change is coming. It was in 1979 that Piet Koornhof, then Minister of Cooperation and Development, rather boldly announced to an audience in Washington, "Apartheid as you came to know it is dead." And none other than the crusty, old (now 71) Botha declared that the "aspirations of urban blacks and the fulfillment of them must form part of the strategy for the protection of everyone in South Africa...
Despite Worrall's optimism, recent polls show him trailing Heunis by 10 percentage points. But they also show that many agree with his argument. A survey in six key urban constituencies reported that 44% of the voters questioned believed the government had not kept its promises of reform, 43.4% thought the Nationalists had been in power too long and a surprising 51.2% favored scrapping the Group Areas...