Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Massachusetts mill town call it home. But tens of thousands of working-class immigrants going back a century and a half before them have left marks as vivid as the archaeological artifacts uncovered in successive layers of limestone. In few places are the textures and tensions of ethnic urban history as legible as they are here...
...race talk convincingly, the more people seem to need it. As American blacks occupy more and more groups no longer formed along racial lines, the pressure accelerates to figure out what white interests really are. The enlisted military is almost one-quarter black; police forces are blackening in large urban areas. But welfare is nearly two-thirds white; affirmative-action beneficiaries are overwhelmingly white women; dysfunctional white families jam the talk shows and court...
Popular teacher Nelson Orellana, 16, said he was enjoying his stay in Cambridge, particularly the experience of being in an urban environment. "I like it because it's quite different from the community--well, it's a city," he said...
...Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about life in the U.S. today. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...
...party and its apparatus is slipping, and crime is on the increase. Corruption -- payoffs and connections -- is the rule at every level. Wealth is growing unevenly: very fast in the special zones, in big cities and along the seaboard, but slowly in the great agricultural interior. Both rural and urban incomes have increased significantly in the past 15 years, but farmers still average less than half of the city worker's wages. Agriculture Minister Liu Jiang warns, "The profitability of farming is declining, and farmers are losing their motivation...