Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually there are not enough police available to supervise the shebeens or control the populace. Thugs known as tsotsis prowl the streets, particularly on payday, to mug hapless passersby. With murders running at the rate of 1,000 a year, the all-black Soweto urban council (which advises on Soweto affairs for the all-white Johannesburg city council) has called for vigilante patrols...
...more plausible explanation for Jamaica's unrest is Manley's efforts to turn the island republic into a socialist state. Even the Prime Minister's supporters concede that the economy is in a shambles. Unemployment is running at about 22%, and is particularly high among urban youth, who police say are guilty of most of the recent murders. The country's foreign exchange earnings, principally from bauxite, sugar and tourism, are down 40 to 60% below last year's total of $400 million, and reserves have dropped from more than $102 million in November...
...first ten chapters of his novel, already written, Asakawa begins to trace the histories of a Japanese-American family in an urban setting "who tried to escape being Japanese" and a family of farmers who remained tied to the land and tried to perpetuate ancient Japanese traditions. Asakawa said he will show that when the war started both families had "the same intention of sending money home...
Dolores J. Katz, medical reporter for the Detroit Free Press; Alfred S. Larkin Jr., assistant metropolitan editor for The Boston Globe; John E. Painter Jr., staff writer for The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.; Barbara A. Reynolds, urban affairs writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Paul Solman, associate editor and reporter for The Real Paper have also been chosen...
...Orange Line's other highlight is an elevated Dudley stop, with an inbound platform surrounded by the second story of Ferdinand's, an old department store and the remains of what was once a suburban shopping center. Now Dudley is considered urban, not suburban, and there is ironic humor in a large painted sign on one of Ferdinand's walls, which reads, in barely legible letters, "BOSTON HERALD--MOST NEWS...