Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that is one of the smaller cuts. According to OMB gossip, Mclntyre whacked much harder at spending proposals by the departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development...
White backlash, neoconservatism, a national move to the right. It's all the same pnenomenon, and it boils down to fear and disillusionment in white urban America. Liberal reformers, and the society that has gone along with the ideas and plans of the liberals, see crime and poverty and continued racial tension despite all their efforts in the '50s and '60s to create the Good Society. The renewed interest in ethnicity to distract from the issue of race and class, the stiffening resistance to affirmative action (or reverse discrimination, depending on your viewpoint), the call for more law and order...
...against imports, and wanted him to endorse a larger increase in the minimum wage. Many women were antagonized by his opposition to federally paid abortions for the poor. Blacks and big-city mayors were upset that he did not call for more big-spending programs for federal jobs and urban revival...
...political conservative without any viable opposition. His BophuthaTswana Democratic Party won overwhelmingly in pre-independence elections, and has 92 out of the 96 seats in the national assembly. Mangope has vowed never to let his territory become a base for black militants or anti-South African terrorists. Some urban blacks have attacked him as a puppet of Pretoria for going along with the independence scheme. Mangope argues that the plan will enable his people to consolidate their political power and thus negotiate with South Africa from a stronger position. "We cannot take the humiliations of the South African system...
...book, "The New Party Politics," Holcombe was one of the first political scientists to recognize a shift from rural to urban in the emphasis of American politics...