Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encouragement among hizzoners is limited indeed. The mayors contend that Carter has fallen short of his pledge to their annual conference in 1976, when he declared: "America's No. 1 economic problem is our cities, and I want to work with you to meet the problem of urban America." Griped Denver's McNichols: "We have no mayors involved in the Administration. We're out of things, and I think that's a mistake...
...warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At about the same time he neglected to tell Representative Herman Badillo in advance that Carter planned to make a much-publicized walking tour of the South Bronx, the urban disaster area in Badillo's district. Last week House Democrats chided Moore and his White House colleagues for not putting up a solid enough front against compromise in the Senate of the Administration's energy bill...
Even the city dwellers of the Northwest live close to the land, their concerns and dreams shaped by their environment. Other Americans worry about urban blight, street crime, racial trouble, chronic unemployment. But not the Northwest. Its economy, based on the renewable resources of forests and farms, is expanding strongly. Its biggest manufacturer, Boeing, has a $5 billion backlog of orders. Its two major cities?Seattle (pop. 496,000) and Portland (377,000)?are bustling, clean and eminently livable. There are too few blacks for any real racial problems, and the small Indian minority?.8% of the population?...
...English every summer. In a burst of civic pride, voters last month approved a $19 million bond issue to build a second theater, a rehearsal wing for the opera and symphony and another art center that will house the Tutankhamun exhibition of Egyptian art in 1978. Now about the urban problems...
...Urban Flight. Young couples are moving back into the city, reversing a decline in population that started in 1975. The Brookings Institution declared last year that Seattle and Omaha were the two cities outside the Sunbelt that provide better education, greater employment opportunities, higher-paying jobs and less crowded housing than their suburbs...