Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of Education and Urban StudiesCharles V. Willie said he thinks the case, if itgoes before the Court, will return justice to theAmerican classroom. A country whose high courtdoes not overturn the federal court's ruling is"writing its own epitaph," Willie said...
...Beckmann, Feiniger, Albers, Schlemmer and other Weimar stars. The only artist who has enough pieces in The Laboratory of Modernity to shine within its gray walls is L'aszl'o Moholy-Nagy, whose work finds a place in each of the exhibits three sections: "Montage," "The Modern Subject" and "Urban Visions." For a period that is already more academically interesting than anything, a more generous sampling would have been appropriate. Additionally, most of the pieces come from Harvard-related museum or library holdings, giving the show a scrappy feel. Yet the exhibition can stand...
SOLUTION NO. 4 Shut off the flow of low-cost loans from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that have helped fuel the competition to snag companies. These loans date from the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and were aimed at "eliminating slums and blight." Today, TIME has found, HUD loans help bankroll such projects as a waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla. (it later went out of business), a downtown hotel in Philadelphia and an upscale fashion retailer in Spokane, Wash. In that case, a $24 million HUD loan arranged by the city of Spokane will...
...schools are falling apart, urban centers are deteriorating, and children go hungry while the government haphazardly showers money and tax breaks on incredibly wealthy corporations. I am outraged that I have to mortgage my firstborn to get a loan or credit, buy a home or a car or fund an education for my children, while all corporations have to do is just start a rumor that they want to "relocate" and the government falls all over itself to help out. CHRISTINE HUBLER Bear...
...Rowland had to commit $1 billion to a new convention center and stadium on its dilapidated waterfront. Meanwhile, the city--one of the nation's poorest--struggles to fund its schools. Hartford is not the only city with such skewed priorities. A new stadium is not a panacea for urban renewal. With so many more pressing needs, it is a wonder that cities continue to pay the ransoms demanded by team owners...