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Word: urban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Petrified. The worst part about committing said crime--the attention backfires. My fellow students would nudge each other, laughing and pointing at me as I pass by. I would become an urban legend prefrosh hosts would tell their young'uns about. People would become terrified to smoke with me. But worst of all, I would become the butt of bad kiosk puns: "The kiosks aren't the only things that are smokin'! Come see the Din and Tonics, Friday night...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Fantasizing About Infamy | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Many of us at Harvard love Cambridge precisely because of its rich urban experience. Just as we wouldn't want our beloved Square to be replaced by a row of chain stores owned by the Gap, we would all suffer if Cambridge's inhabitants all became members of the corporate elite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protecting Our Own | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...subject of city-wide economicdevelopment, both Buonomo and Curtatone haveproposed convening a group of local political andbusiness leaders, along with urban planners, tocome up with a vision for the city's future...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Somerville Mayoral Candidates Play to Win | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...pinnacle of amateur sport in the U.S, college athletics, has been a joke for years. Large universities make millions of dollars in television and licensing contracts thanks to talented basketball and football recruits often drawn from poor urban communities; most of these schools could care less whether the so-called student-athletes receive good educations...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Corruption Starts At the Top | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...Emporio Armani store on Fifth Avenue in downtown Manhattan. There's a benefit here tonight for the Refugee Project, a nonprofit organization Lauryn Hill founded to encourage social activism among urban youth. Hill is here, and the cameras are flashing. Her musical performance on Saturday Night Live has boosted her album back to the upper reaches of the charts. In a few days she will receive 10 Grammy nominations, the most ever by a female artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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