Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of us were going through the Harvard career forum and noticed that what was represented was traditional careers, like investment banking. There was no fighting violence in urban areas or anything like that," said Jomo A. Thorne '97, another of the conference's organizers...
...capita limit on Medicaid spending. The President reportedly proposes to cut the federal share in Medicaid spending by $20 billion over the next five years. Major savings would come from giving states fixed amounts per recipient. The President's plan also would limit payments to hospitals in large urban areas which treat many Medicaid patients. Since the Administration proposal guarantees benefits to anyone meeting federal guidelines, while reducing the federal share of the costs, many governors object to being forced to foot the bill for a program the federal government controls. The governors have plenty of experience with that sort...
...could this be? How could anyone have anticipated that despite all the stolid urban grays I had long championed, I would come to be a yellow person? Actually, quite a few people had more or less bet their careers on it, and some of them were hunkered down in this Seattle hotel room. The participants belonged to the 1,500-member Color Marketing Group, the Virginia-based color cartel that has held a largely unknowing public under its sway for more than 30 years. It was the CMG that forecast avocado refrigerators in the late '60s and mauve motel rooms...
...kind donations that normally underwrite such a celebration. Continental Airlines won't provide free seats to celebrities. General Motors will not provide 300 cars, free of charge, for the parade, and Ralston Purina will not hay and water the hundreds of horses that usually turn the Mall into an urban Ponderosa for a few days. "They are doing the Caesar's wife Inaugural," said insurance lobbyist Michael Lewan, a Democrat...
Small schools, large schools, Ivy and non-Ivy, rural and urban; the group appeared to be a fairly accurate cross section of America. With some exceptions, we got along quite well, eating meals together and dancing in a tight bunch the night of the delegate dance...