Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head off contradictory policy statements, the White House has become much more rigorous in reviewing the prepared testimony of top officials before congressional committees. For example, White House aides who vetted Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Harris' planned statements before the House Banking Committee last week felt that they were too critical of the Federal Reserve Board's policies. Lacking time to revise her remarks, she canceled the appearance...
...acknowledge that the anything has a dark and even unspeakable side-slum miseries, ghettos like the South Bronx burning themselves out, and horripilating parlors of decadence, catering to the most specialized of the perverse. Much of the rest of the nation regards New York as a cautionary tale, the urban exemplar of everything that can go wrong: poverty, pollution, crime, racial conflict, corrupt and stupid government, dirt, traffic, immorality and, no doubt, sinful pride...
...with most other urban headaches, the problem is more serious in New York than in any other community. The city's estimated 1.4 million dogs dump some 125 tons of feces daily-not to mention 100,000 gal. of urine. This is not merely an aesthetic and emotional issue between dog owners and doo-dodgers, but a matter of health as well, since the minute roundworm eggs excreted by many dogs can be transmitted to humans, particularly children, and can ultimately affect the kidneys, liver, lungs, brain and eyes...
...from the generally stagnant era of English history called the Restoration is Restoration comedy. Playwrights such as Congreve, Vanbrugh and William Wyncherly fashioned a brand of theatrical social satire using the raw materials afforded by courtly foppery and greed and the devil-take-all decadence of the urban upper classes. Relying heavily on wit, bawdry, and ludicrously fashioned images, these plays were often quite vicious in their criticism of London society despite the fact that many of the playwrights were a part of the madhouse themselves...
...climbed to an annual rate of 21%. To get approval from the International Monetary Fund for $750 million in loans from a consortium of Western countries, Scares' government agreed to strict austerity measures that have drastically raised the price of food, transportation, fuel and other necessities. The wages of urban industrial workers have barely managed to stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse off in terms of purchasing power than they were before the 1974 revolution. Nor are economic matters expected to improve soon. This year, to meet IMF austerity guidelines, Portugal was expected to limit...