Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points to downtown development of older cities as a way of dealing with the problem. He never fails to inform listeners of the major achievement of his four years in Congress--authoring legislation, which was recently signed into law, to get the rundown city of Lowell declared as an urban national park--to commemorate it as the country's first planned industrial city. As a result, he maintains, the city will be able to tap federal funds for its revitalization efforts and new industry will be attracted to Lowell and along with them, new jobs...
...Powell: "We just haven't done the job we could have in utilizing her. We've been so caught up in other things, we neglected her." One example: Domestic Affairs Adviser Stu Eizenstat was recently invited by Mrs. Carter to a meeting to help plan her new urban volunteer program; he sent a secretary instead...
Subsidized Housing. The Administration had asked for a 1979 appropriation of $31 billion to subsidize housing for the poor and the elderly. But the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee added amendments that would have cost the Government an additional $8 billion. Last week, by a vote of 60 to 21, the Senate cut it back to what the Administration had originally proposed...
...could there have been with a war on?-thousands died along the route, the wounded from loss of blood, the weak from exhaustion, and others by execution, usually because they had not been quick enough to obey a Khmer Rouge order. Phnom Penh was not alone: the entire urban population of Cambodia, some 4 million people, set out on a similar grotesque pilgrimage. It was one of the greatest transfers of human beings in modern history...
...Misbehavin'. This handsome tribute to Fats Waller is a jumpin' Harlem cantata of urban night music. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical...