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Word: urban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...observers have noted that within the country, students and community organizations are becoming disillusioned with a process in which the interests of the vast majority of urban and rural poor are being compromised by the negotiation process. It is widely believed that the regime will continue to oppose real democracy through the tactic of delay and its complicity in political assassinations and terrorist violence. South Africans would do well to remember African-American struggles in the period after the 1965 Voting Rights Act and to understand the ways in which barriers to economic change remained even after access...

Author: By Andre C. Namphy, | Title: Nelson Mandela Speaks, and His Optimism Shines Through | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...India, where Christians compose one percent of the population (which is one percent of nearly 900 million), December in an urban setting is probably as festive a month as it is here...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, | Title: Christmastime | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

...some well-to-do New Yorkers by passing himself off as a college friend of their children. And though Guare has cleverly reshaped the material for the screen, where it has been directed with elan by Fred Schepisi, the piece is still not much more than a bit of urban folklore -- a newspaper feature story rather than a full-fledged narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sketchy Scam | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Darlene. The story of Sidney and Rose, two young urban professionals at the helms of their respective dating services, who look for love in all the wrong places. Loeb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...season to stand in the Coop, Urban Outfitters, Wordsworth Abridged or some other card-vending establishment and make some decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When You Care Enough... | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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