Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abduction sent waves of anger and fear rippling through West Germany The brutal incident was the latest round in what many West Germans have begun calling a civil war between their government and a small army of nihilistic urban terrorists bent on disrupting public order. Since April, Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback has been gunned down on the streets of Karlsruhe and Banker Jürgen Ponto slain inside his estate near Frankfurt (TIME, Aug. 15). A report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous...
...economists, nutritionists, urban planners, education specialists and assorted other specialists at HIID should be quite busy this year. John C. Eddison, associate director of the institute for finance and management, said HIID is in a period of expansion and will complete $3 million worth of business in consulting and research in the Third World this year. At a time many believe Harvard's influence on policy decisions in the federal, state and city government is waning, it seems to be growing overseas: nearly 100 professional consultants will serve on HIID projects this year...
...believes the reports are true about SAVAK's infiltration of Iranian universities, but thinks it may be possible to avoid this lack of academic freedom at RSKU. The new university will be located in a relatively isolated area next to a national forest outside Teheran, away from the major urban foci of the spy network, Keenan maintains. And since the RSKU facility will only be utilized for Ph.D. candidates preparing their dissertaition, instruction will be given almost exclusively on a one-to-one basis, rather than in a classroom situation, he says...
...real world between 1970 and 1976, the median income of American families and consumer prices generally both rose about 47%. But, reports the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the median price of existing houses jumped 65%, from $23,030 to $38,100. Worse, newhouse prices shot up 89%, to $44,200. The growth in size and quality of the houses brought part of this great increase, but most of it was produced by housing inflation...
...last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "There are more and more homes with four fireplaces, three or more baths, $10,000 kitchens...