Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urban setup like we have here [in Cambridge], it puts people in a metal and glass tank, making them virtually unapproachable," Riley says...
...insult to the severity of the task at hand. Attitudes must be changed from the inside; this transformation will require more commitment than school uniforms. We must convince people that education will bring economic power. And we must prove it by awarding jobs to qualified individuals. For urban America to harbor hope, it must see examples of success. Keynote speaker Bayh endorsed tougher truancy laws, more drug prevention and school uniforms as means to achieve discipline. Missing were ways to replace the void with compassion. Disciplinary problems are just symptoms of a greater illness. Truancy ends where an incentive...
Grewal, who is also vice president of the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, says that environmentalism has been making a concerted effort to expand its support base to include poor urban residents, who may be endangered by toxic sites in their neighborhoods...
Boulton says the role of women and residents of urban and rural areas in environmentalism has increased...
Boulton says the trend appeared in the late-1980s, when researchers began looking into the effects of environmental hazards on the female reproductive system and on residents of lower-income, urban areas...