Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulk of the Red Line project will be funded by the MBTA, supplemented by the Urban Mass Transit Association. Final costs for the project are expected to be in the millions, although no final figure has been estimated...
...graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then futuristic political novel about urban pathology. After helping to cover the White House for the Tribune during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, Barrett in 1965 joined TIME, where he worked in the Nation section and wrote 24 cover stories. Eventually, he served as a senior editor, then became chief of the magazine's New York...
Increasingly, however, the justification for plea bargaining as a necessary evil is being questioned. Most observers agree that certain overburdened urban jurisdictions would grind to a halt without it. But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining. According to New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, when he limited plea bargaining, the city's criminal court judges complained that "they would have to spend a lot of time on the bench trying cases...
...Alaska keep its courts from being swamped by criminal trials without the supposedly essential practice of plea bargaining? Unlike urban courts already streamlined to cope with heavy case loads, Alaska courts had sufficient slack to absorb more trials. Efficiency techniques instituted 16 months before the ban continued to whittle down court delay. More careful screening out of weak cases also helped. But the main reason Alaska's courts could keep up is that defendants continued to plead guilty in droves. The percentage of accused choosing to exercise their right to trial increased only from 6.7% to 9.6%. Why? "Because...
...loans have long hovered around 9½% or 10% or more, but last week more than 2,000 families in Chicago were able to get financing at a bargain 7.99%. The funds involved, totaling $83 million, were raised through tax-free municipal bonds in an intriguing experiment in encouraging urban homeowning...