Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weinstein says Harvard administrators may be less interested in funding student performances because of the College's urban location...
Gibbons, however, says Brown University, which is located in urban Providence R.I., supports a student nightclub called "The underground," which features funk, jazz, and rock music, as well as alcohol for those over...
...Warner-Lambert company, the makers of Trident gum, would like everyone to know that, "No. Wrappers are not meant to be eaten." Another urban legend debunked, bubble burst...
...Duehay is also trying to arrange a meeting with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo to discuss housing and homelessness. In particular, Duehay would like to talk to Cuomo about expiring use, the recent phenomenon of making available houses once reserved for affordable housing to market pricing, which has led to many evictions in Cambridge...
...violence only make things worse, because they convince the vast majority of law-abiding inner-city residents that cops are the enemy. Unfortunately, too many people--and too many politicians, such as New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani--have not made the connection. As Hugh Price of the National Urban League puts it, even poor people have "a right to be protected by the police, not be preyed on by them." Until the cops figure that out, it will be open season on black...