Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people at Cambridge Hospital know a great deal about how to meet the needs of a diverse urban population," says Matthew E. Fishman '80, director of community benefit programs at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, Inc., a non-profit healthcare delivery system composed of doctors and hospitals...
...Koch of New York was also a character. He once said he wasn't interested in running for Governor because there weren't any decent Chinese restaurants in Albany--a perfect mayor-as-character joke that turned less funny when he decided to run for Governor. In those days, urban dwellers preferred having a character as mayor because they figured that since a large American city was unmanageable anyway, they might as well have on hand someone who at least provided some entertainment...
...popular mayor. What might be considered the Frank Perdue school of urban analysis holds that Giuliani is popular precisely because New Yorkers, now more optimistic about the possibility that the city might be manageable after all, see him as the sort of person it takes to do the managing--a relentless proctor who is burdened by neither a sense of irony nor a sense of proportion. Once you put yourself in the hands of someone like that, of course, you'd better take care to cross the street only at designated crosswalks...
Curley, Kennedy, O'Neill and Kennedy all came from the same urban, Irish-Catholic roots and appealed to the same liberal working class voters...
...Neill's tenure in the office saw the district weather the civil rights movement, the expansion of national social programs, the extension of urban sprawl, the Vietnam War and increasing gentrification in Cambridge...