Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cuts are vague blather. He wouldn't cut defense. He says he would 'wipe out' corporate welfare but offers no specifics, saying between campaign stops only that 'a lot can be done with agriculture subsidies." Forbes says he'll "strip" the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development of "all but essential functions." Sounds tough. But it's a knock-off of the G.O.P.'s box-shuffling plan of earlier this year, which sliced a mere 1% from federal spending and 5% from the deficit. Forbes isn't asking citizens to give up anything to solve...
...regulate who lives there and who shops there," says Margaret Weir, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "Communities can't do it by racial restrictions because that's illegal. But they can do it through other rules and regulations." Says Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "Success and prestige today means not having to look at people who are poor. That's what that bus stop at the mall said: 'Don't remind us; don't force...
Newman has written extensively about the urban working poor, including Falling From Grace, a book exploring the cultural and familial consequences of corporate downsizing...
This semester's fellows are Rogers; Carl Anthony, director of the Urban Habitat Program; former Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr. (D-Geo.); Leslie Goodman, who has served as deputy chief of communications under California Gov. Pete Wilson; Bruce Herschensohn, the GOP nominee for a 1992 California Senate race and Lynn R. Williams, former president of United Steelworkers of America...
...Haiti; the third, Lauryn Hill, is a native of New Jersey but considers herself "Haitian by association." The band's winning new album The Score draws liberally from the music of both the Caribbean (there's a rousing cover of Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry) and urban America (a woozy hip-hop remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly...