Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anderson, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who now works for Reagan full time. Anderson, who served as a special assistant to the President during the early Nixon years, describes himself as a "free-market economist." He is author of The Federal Bulldozer, a denunciation of urban renewal programs. Anderson is one of the few economists who still believe that a literally balanced federal budget is possible. Reagan has also sought advice from Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and a moderate who finds...
...Mays is the dean of black higher education," Ronald R. Edmonds, director of the Center for Urban Studies of the Graduate School of Education, which arranged the conference, said yesterday...
...small number of people produce similar conventions of formal blindness. Indeed at times members seem to behave as if they lived alone in the building in a state of gracious spaciousness. I am convinced that the knack of ignoring one's fellow man is a useful trait in an urban environment, one with which Americans have a good deal of trouble. Americans are always wanting to relate to everyone. How else can we explain the incredible hostility created by the appearance of long hair styles back in the sixties? In Europe no one much cared about how people cut their...
...desegregate neighborhoods. With different language and emphasis, both Morris Udall and Henry Jackson have expressed reservations about too vigorous a policy of placing low-rent housing in high or middle income neighborhoods. Many black leaders have voiced similar misgivings. Says Eugene Callander, former president of the New York Urban Coalition: "Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee...
...presidential nomination promptly seized on his gaffe. Udall accused Carter of practicing "the politics of racial division." Jackson called Carter's language "amazing" and said that the Georgian "will be explaining that for the rest of the campaign." Protests poured in from black groups, including the Urban League and the congressional Black Caucus...