Word: urban
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...situation in the Cambridge "Tenants" Union is so bad that its "tenant leaders" have called it "antitenant" to work both to defend their homes. They have called it "anti-tenant" to defend tenants of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They have called it "anti-ten-ant" to defend rent control tenants who lacked condominium eviction rights...
...Space Museum commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was dramatically scaled down. Some eighty members of congress, together with the American Legion and other veterans' groups, attacked the exhibit, which explored the moral ambiguities of the atomic bombing of two major Japanese urban areas...
Mortality rates in urban young--and misery rates too, if anyone keeps such figures--will be affected for years to come by cocaine, heroin and casual gunfire, and by teen pregnancy. Medicine now has to deal with crack babies and AIDS babies and, increasingly, premature babies born to single teens who had no prenatal care...
...French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient...
...could not mount a viable campaign at a time when he is out of step with the Party's increasingly aggressive agenda: He opposes term limits, favors tax cuts instead of a balanced-budget amendment and, unlike the vast majority of GOP members, backs federal incentives to combat urban poverty...