Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House, America's blacks. Convinced that they were responsible for Carter's election, they are now claiming what they feel is their due. A group of 15 black leaders met in New York to blast the Administration for "callous neglect" of urban black problems. Bolstering their complaint was a Labor Department report that summertime unemployment among black youths had reached 34.8%-an all-time high; the jobless rate for white youths, meanwhile, stood at 12.6%. George Meany echoed the blacks' complaint by rebuking Carter for putting a balanced budget ahead of a full-employment program...
When Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, accused Carter six weeks ago of reneging on his campaign promises to blacks, the President reacted heatedly and suggested that Jordan had been "demagogic." But Carter was sufficiently impressed by last week's criticism to promise that he would get started soon on a new urban policy to arrest the decay of the cities and provide more jobs. The emphasis would be on incentives for greater private investment in areas now shunned as too risky. The President asked the black leaders to "hang in there" until...
...surprise plan drawn up by Israeli Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, who has a reputation as a superhawk, for establishing massive new settlements on the West Bank. The plan, details of which were leaked last week to the daily Ma'ariv, calls for 30 new settlements and three urban centers in the western half of the occupied territory, cutting off the main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending...
Fountains are one example. Though they have been livening up city squares in Europe for centuries, America's city builders for a long time gave scant thought to the frivolous pleasure that fountains offer. But in the past few years, urban planners all around the country have been turning more and more imaginatively to water with some refreshing and spectacular results...
...most industry observers feel that it would have got there anyway?if not now, then some time soon. Partly because it had fewer affiliates in the boondocks and partly because CBS's relatively sophisticated programs had cornered the older, educated audience, ABC was forced to court younger, urban viewers with fast action, sex and unsophisticated comedies. When the "family hour," the 60 minutes from 8 to 9 o'clock, was instituted in 1975, banishing blood and gore to later hours, ABC was ready with its comedies. Simple enough to appeal to kids, they were yet not so simple...