Word: urban
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...capital of exuberant quirkiness, San Francisco municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...
...have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...
...political and military assignments for the Communists, that carried him gradually, if not always smoothly, to higher ranks. His earliest misstep, resulting in a brief period out of favor, was to ally himself with a party faction that favored basing the drive to power on rural rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October...
...course of the year, the Botha government made a few concessions. It repealed the laws forbidding mixed marriage and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. It promised that blacks living in urban areas would be entitled to some sort of South African citizenship (instead of being "citizens" merely of poor but ostensibly "independent" homelands). It also said it would consider scrapping the hated pass laws controlling the movement of blacks. These steps were notable departures from doctrinaire apartheid, but to millions of angry and unemployed young blacks in the townships, they were too little and too late...
...system's dozen cars, each with a capacity of 100 passengers, will never carry enough riders to justify the expense. Official estimates for the number of daily riders (at 40¢ to 50¢ a trip) have dropped from 70,000 to 40,000, while Stanley, who heads the Urban Mass Transit Administration in Washington, foresees no more than...