Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island, the 21 armored cars arriving with the deployment will have to pass through some of Hong Kong's most crowded urban districts. The new troops will join a contingent of 200 unarmed People's Liberation Army troops and 509 lightly armed soldiers...
...days after graduating, Connerly went to work as an urban-renewal trainee at the Sacramento redevelopment agency. It was the heyday of urban renewal, with state and federal funds flowing into cities, and Connerly quickly rose to a managerial position at the state department of housing and community development. While there he got a call from a young Republican assembly member who was about to become chairman of the housing committee. He offered Connerly a job as chief consultant. "You'll have a chance to put your fingerprints on housing policy in this state," said Pete Wilson. Connerly took...
...might have cost him some votes in the largest state, candidate Clinton rarely brought it up. And with the courts hacking away at preferential treatment of minority college applicants, critics say Clinton would do more to help them attain higher education if he were to pour money into improving urban elementary schools rather than giving tax breaks and scholarships to middle-class kids...
...looking Clyde Latham, 87, who lives in the dried-up little West Texas town of Spur (pop. 1,300), where the tumbleweed can outnumber the pickup trucks and the restaurant of choice is the local Dairy Queen. The son is Aaron Latham, 53, a Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy) and, child of Texas that he is, a splendid raconteur...
...black or its first woman. The wonder is that just a month ago, neither seemed possible. MAYOR KANE DITTO was the easy favorite to win a third term, but in a six-way race, the white two-term incumbent was trounced by HARVEY JOHNSON, a 50-year-old black urban planner. Johnson must now defeat G.O.P. primary winner CHARLOTTE REEVES. (A third and distant candidate is independent Ivory Phillips, a black woman.) The other wonder of this election is that though Jackson has a black majority, race has not been a dominant factor. Reeves, a white woman, handily defeated black...