Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to ask you to consider spending your next two years teaching in an under-resourced urban or rural public school...
...Paddy is an ex-boxer who just missed Olympic glory and at 32, has spent his life working for Jack Tierney as a mob enforcer. Billy is the first in the family to have left life as a laborer behind to embrace education, a college degree and a sub-urban, green-lawn dream of prosperity...
Kennedy is the ranking minority member of the House Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee and has actively fought recent cuts in the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...purchase, finalized Jan. 24, was made possible by a $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...teachers Raines impressed at Harvard was the future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who hired Raines as a summer intern when Moynihan was appointed to the new post of urban-affairs adviser by Richard Nixon. At 20, Raines found himself briefing the President and most of his Cabinet on campus unrest two weeks before a nationwide antiwar moratorium. Raines' own experiences as a protester five months earlier may have provided his first taste of how inhospitable the "vital center" can be. He led a demonstration against both the militant students who occupied a university building and the administration' that decided...