Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adviser complained that the presidential staff was "just another palace guard shielding the President from anybody who might know more than they do." The Cabinet was attacked for being "too independent" to help Ford in his hour of need. One participant griped that Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was unwilling to speak for the President because "she can't decide whether or not she is a Republican." Treasury Secretary Simon might have been useful in Michigan-then why was he traveling in South America? Laird sniped at the bad timing of Kissinger's Africa trip...
Institute of Public and Urban Affairs San Diego...
However, the panel continues, the senior faculty did know that Hartman's teaching interests had shifted to a community organizing focus and that he saw the Urban Field Service (UFS) as academic, not extracurricular...
Eddison said the project, funded largely by the World Bank, is aimed at teaching Iranian citizens comprehensive skills in urban planning...
...seashore or mountains back to the cities. When they finally reached home, they found that the political situation had deteriorated even further. The main political parties were unable to agree on a common program to deal with the country's deteriorating economy. There were new incidents of urban terrorism and still more charges of corruption leveled against the top political leadership. The latest events could only harm the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Aldo Moro and increase the chances that the Communists-for the first time since 1948 -could soon have a formal role in the national government...