Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington gave the keynote address at an all-day conference that featured a panel discussion, a case study of public housing and workshops on issues from urban redevelopment to education reform. Nearly 100 people, including politicians, business professionals and college student from all over the country, attended...
After Washington's speech, conference participants debated the relative merits of subsidized housing versus housing allowances. And the audience chose between three workshops: "Private Enterprise and Urban Renovation," "Education Reform in the Inner City" and "Community Issues and Grassroots Relief...
Washington joined Professor of Education Gary Orfield and Joy Taylor, financial vice president of American Express, for a panel called "Approaches to Urban Poverty...
Some people are addicted to the energy of urban life and are bored without it while others can only take it in limited doses. Harvard Square isn't exactly the Big Bad Apple, but constantly fighting crowds, dodging murderous Boston drivers and listening to angry panhandlers take their wrath out on you when you don't buy into their scams can begin to take a toll on you, especially if you're not a city person...
...Williams moved to the community in 1995 to see family and allegedly to sell narcotics. A self-proclaimed member of the Bloods street gang and widely disliked by his Brooklyn neighbors, Williams has eight arrests and three convictions behind him. In Jamestown he seems to have used his urban of-the-street credibility to impress the disaffected girls he picked up in local parks. Chautauqua investigators believe in some cases Williams may have bartered drugs for sex. (Williams' grandmother Eleanor McCrae told the Buffalo News she believed he contracted HIV from a homosexual in a youth detention facility...