Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black is Beautiful" became a black community byword in the late '60s, advocates of black pride began to hunt for "useable history"--evidence for a cultural asset in black roots. Gutman's thesis, to be followed by one on black urban life after 1960, furnishes blacks with a sympathetic and un-patronizing, if non-radical model of their heritage. "Kinship ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing...
...Peugeot -keeps a lid on the nouveau riche excesses that have plagued Saudi Arabia. Some observers are worried about the immigration of Libyans from the desert to the cities. Says one Western diplomat: "These people are desert nomads. There's danger that they'll become disoriented by urban life and indolent with their riches. Gaddafi is trying to combat this with a religious, revolutionary fervor-with unknown success...
...because its networks of runners are big employers in the ghettos and amount to major community industries. Notes Max Renner, a New York investigation commission special agent: "Even when the numbers in Harlem was operated by white mobsters, 90% of the take stayed there." Thus powerful politicians from poor urban constituencies have traditionally opposed serious attempts to drive the numbers out of business...
Irvine Co. owns an 80,000-acre ranch that makes up one-fifth of Orange County, Calif. There the company has been building houses and factories grouped into developments that are remarkably successful examples of comprehensive urban planning. It must be put up for sale, however, because the James Irvine Foundation owns the controlling interest. Under federal tax law, the foundation cannot control an enterprise that aims at making a profit-and Irvine Co. not only tries to turn a profit but clears a rather tidy one. Mobil Oil Corp. offered $200 million in May, setting off a frantic bidding...
...only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly $10 billion worth of houses and commercial and industrial complexes. When the expansion is completed, the ranch will have 400,000 residents and be the country's largest master-planned urban setting. Says an executive of one company that has been bidding for Irvine: "For the rest of the century, all we can see on those 80,000 debt-free acres is growth, growth, growth...