Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge isn't unique, but it particularly attracts people. It has a larger-than-normal homeless population. Given an urban phenomenon, it's about the same as other cities nation-wide," Unterberger said...
Nobody fears urban crime more than the urban poor. In Watts and other rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, residents are terrorized daily by gangs and gunfire, living in a virtual war zone where murder is the leading cause of death among young men. Since 1981 residents have twice voted for higher taxes to pay for more police officers, but each time the citywide referendum was defeated by voters in the more affluent and better-policed areas of Los Angeles...
...every statistical measure, the quality of the nation's highways has improved somewhat. That is particularly true of the Interstate system, which carries 20% of the nation's traffic on only 1% of its road mileage. According to Federal Highway Administration figures, while only 30% of the pavement on urban Interstates was in good or very good condition in 1982, that figure had risen to 35% in 1985. "The rate of deterioration has been halted," says Joseph Rhodes, special assistant to the FHA administrator. "These conditions didn't arise overnight and they won't be corrected overnight...
Still, it was the first time in more than four years that the contras had struck at a target within the city limits. Muffed though it was, the attack delivered a warning that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed...
...ISDN is expected to be installed in most major urban centers. All the equipment in the Government's new phone network will be compatible with the new system. Households and businesses with older equipment will be able to place calls in the ISDN network, but special adaptors will be needed to take advantage of the system's enhanced capabilities, like simultaneously transmitting images and data...