Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Restricted by its urban location, Ko's business has been unable to expand its sales enough to satisfy its parent corporation...
While Ko enjoys working in Cambridge, the urban environment and tight-knit neighborhoods make it difficult to expand business...
Social science, however, is an imperfect discipline. Referring to programs for young children, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the Urban Institute and former official in the Clinton Administration, has written, "The evidence is always mixed. We simply do not know whether they work. In these cases, one must weigh the risk of doing something and having it not work against the risk of doing nothing and missing an opportunity to improve lives. It can be just as costly to not fund a potentially successful program as it is to fund a potentially unsuccessful...
...Inauguration Day is to cover over that sort of animus, and there is no better city in which to do that than Washington. Packed like a bright graveyard with slabs of marble and men on horseback, Washington is a ceremony waiting to happen. It is also the ideal urban setting for the great stone wall. One reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn...
...never eaten a BLT in my life. And, true, stores do come and go even in small towns. But what is disturbing is the trend toward "Gapification." Within a couple blocks of the John Harvard statue, we now have a Tower Records, HMV Records, a Gap, Urban Outfitters, three CVS's, Chilis, Pizzeria Uno and a Coop operated by Barnes and Noble. These stores, while convenient, are impersonal and virtually indistinguishable from similar stores in other parts of the country and even around the world...