Word: urban
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Once upon a time the story of the Wedtech Corp. seemed to be a modern urban fairy tale, a kind of parable showing that America was still the land of opportunity. The story began in New York City in 1965, when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi...
WHEN I'M really in the mood to waste some shoe leather I'll make my way over to Central Square. On the map Central Square is shown as part of Cambridge, but in reality it is a separate fief, administered by the Federal Bureau of Urban Blight; Cambridge proper actually ends at the eastern end of the Mt. Auburn St. used book store zone, a retail no man's land where no one ever ventures...
...Hyunjune Seung) is a Chinese American filmmaker who evades his Asian roots yet also refuses to assimilate into mainstream American culture. Instead, Tam strives to establish a Black American identity. He adopts an urban Black speech pattern, gives "high fives" rather than shaking hands, and chooses as his idol a Black boxer named Ovaltine...
...There is a loop-hole in the process of evictions and there is a strong need to find some justifiable reason for evictions," said one staff person on the Committee on Urban Housing and Development...
While these arguments are convincing, the critics who make them must also condemn other fields with limited foci in order to remain consistent. Their views apply to the better-established field of Afro-American Studies, as well as to other concentrations such as Sociology, Urban Studies, Soviet Studies, Asian Studies, and American History...