Word: urban
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...originally passed, the Clean Water Act was seen as a major step toward cleaning up our nation. Its three goals were to create a nation of "fishable and swimmable" waters by 1983, to eliminate hazardous pollutants by 1985, and to maintain and restore critical aquatic ecosystems, including wetlands and urban watersheds...
JACK KEMP. The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush has lined up top fund raisers and will relocate his political-action committee from Washington to strategically important California this week. He becomes the instant front runner if he jumps in, but campaign veterans are worried that he lacks the discipline to hold the pole position for long...
Bellow recalls the good old days with the pugnacious pride of a self-made man. The tone can get overbearing, and there are blind spots, but one would have to be afflicted with multiple sensory deficits to miss his point. Urban America is in physical decline. Cities as seats of education and social stability have decayed. Relations among ethnic and racial groups may have been raw in the poor immigrant neighborhoods of Bellow's youth, but fractious communities still shared a common identity as Americans. No longer. "The slums, as a friend of mine once observed, were ruined," he writes...
Ideally, Lane would bulldoze the projects and disperse their residents to "normal communities." But "no one wants the poor in their neighborhoods," he says, "so that won't happen." The next best hope rests with the quiet revolution launched last week by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend...
Yeah, we've still got the noxious fumes off exit 12, the urban nightmares of Newark, Jersey City and Camden and the syringe-laden beaches of the Jersey shore. But as if that wasn't enough, it's pretty apparent now that we've been cursed with two inept sports franchises...