Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman in your forties living in one of the nation's urban centers, eager for a long sought-after promotion at a powerful organization where you work. You have spent many years--perhaps even over a decade--undergoing rigorous training for your position. Of course, so have many others, and only the select few will be chosen as one of this organization's next Men in Black. Luckily (you believe), you have an advantage. You know the place. You know the people. They know you. You put in the time and then some. And most of all, you are fairly...
...than journalism usually achieves. Along with Hadden, he saw that America after the Great War was in a state of change that would create a natural audience for the kind of magazine they had in mind. The nation's cultural center of gravity was shifting. A newly emergent, restless urban middle class--often intellectually and socially insecure--was getting into business, making money, buying things...
LIVING Hotpots of the Urban Night...
Things got so bad that two years ago the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found itself with two choices: place the housing authority under jurisdiction of a federal judge or find an outside institution free of HANO's own dubious 58-year history to run it. Federal officials decided to hand the housing authority over to Tulane University--a highly selective, overwhelmingly white, old-line Southern school situated in a picturesque neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. It seemed an unlikely choice: What could Tulane know about fixing a bureaucracy that was rotting away as much as the buildings...
...these men, the sun is a much smaller white ball, and the planets number 15, not nine. They pass their time in Sully's, the Brighton Billiard Club, the Rack, Pockets and in the Boston Billiard Club--just a few of the urban oases which dot the metropolitan landscape of Boston. From unknown to acclaimed, from tiny capsules of kitsch to mammoth monsters of mahogany, these billiard halls are loaded with personality, and though they may be divided by money, by class and by style, they are united by the game, and the game never changes...