Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House adviser, with an "empty basket." The Environmental Protection Agency put together a 100-page appeal for more money and cheekily sprinkled it with quotes from Carter campaign speeches calling for more spending on the environment. The President was not moved. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, asked for more funds to expand a program of subsidized housing for the poor. She too was turned down. Says top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan: "Jimmy's just as fiscally conservative as Bert Lance-or worse...
Smaller families of course can live in smaller houses. Experts also foresee a greater demand for town houses, condominiums and apartments as suburbanites move back into the cities to take advantage of the cultural opportunities clustered in urban centers...
...most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...
Long Term. Carter already is thinking ahead to future tax issues. Last week he casually dropped a bombshell: chatting with employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he outlined a plan to cut taxes for everyone earning less than $16,000 a year, raise them for everybody making more. That would be part of his long-term program for tax reform; the President has started discussing specifics before his aides have even settled on generalities...
...importance of social reform and recommended an expansion of the South Vietnamese government's "power structure" as a means of averting revolution. Huntington also advocated the use of "mechanical and conventional power"--bombing--in rural areas threatened by the National Liberation Front to force the population in to urban centers, where they could easily be controlled by the South Vietnamese government. While perhaps technically efficient, this policy of "forced draft urbanization and modernization" exacted tremendous human costs...