Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of licentious fare that would inflame Zulu houseboys to run up stairs and rape madame, as former Minister of Posts and Telegraph Albert Hertzog used to warn. Most of the country's 18 million blacks, in fact, were unable to see the programs because they live in urban slums and rural townships without electricity. One African, who won a television set in a contest last year, was given a portable generator to operate it. After weeks of watching the test transmissions, he decided to sell the TV and keep the generator. Many whites, on the other hand...
...present, Schafer, who hails from a Chicago suburb and works in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the GSD, is working on a research plan at the Joint Center for MIT and Harvard University on Urban Planning...
Schafer came to Harvard from a job with a government consulting firm as a member of the Kerner Commission that investigated riots in urban areas. She is currently working toward a PhD. in urban planning...
...remote rural areas, due to excessive cost. In this case, as in any other, private companies will provide service if the patrons are willing to pay for it, though it will probably cost them more. Private firms--unlike the present Postal Service--will not be able to force urban dwellers to subsidize mail delivery to rural areas. But even if no private companies could be persuaded to make such deliveries, it would be cheaper to subsidize continued USPS delivery to such places than to continue the present system of postal service...
...limit the city's costs for completion of the project to its original $6.5 million contribution, made mostly by MIT, and is expected to save the city approximately $7.5 million, Sullivan said. Sullivan said that the legislation, along with a $15 million commitment by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, provides a "giant step" towards the project's completion...