Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese leaders, who talk constantly about the splendid present and the glowing future. Young Chinese resent the practice of being sent from the cities to the countryside to learn the virtues of agricultural labor?a practice that Hua says he will continue. Many have sneaked back into urban centers, where they live by stealing...
Christmas in Soweto this year was grimmer and even more subdued than usual. Workers, many of them living at or below the effective poverty line for South Africa's urban blacks, traditionally spend their modest year-end bonuses on a few toys, a bottle or two of brandy for a party, or perhaps a new piece of furniture for the drab little single-story brick houses in which they live...
Student power, in effect, rules Soweto today. Says David Thebehali, 37, who as chairman of the Urban Bantu Council (U.B.C.) serves as Soweto's unofficial mayor: "The parents were shocked at first by how the kids behaved during the riots. However, a lot of us soon realized that the students were only fighting the battles we should have fought years ago but didn't have the courage to fight. Now the parents solidly support the students, while they don't always agree with the tactics...
Architects for the MBTA have submitted several versions of the proposal to the Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA), Mila Dixon, special assistant for communications for the Public Information Office of the MBTA, said yesterday...
...says: "People with no shelter need to be assured of a coherent, consistent housing policy on which they can rely." One thing she will scrutinize: highway building that cuts through urban areas and destroys neighborhoods-or, as she puts it dramatically, projects that have "opened the main artery to the city's life...