Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban policy spreads its benefits thinly...
...years ago Candidate Jimmy Carter promised the nation's mayors that if he became President, they would have "a friend, an ally and a partner in the White House." The pledge delighted the mayors and won him the enthusiastic support of many urban blacks, whose votes provided his margin of victory. This week, after a series of delays and bureaucratic bungles, the President is finally preparing to put his words into action. In a televised address from the White House, he will present his new urban policy, which he describes as "a new partnership to conserve America...
...black vote is concentrated in key urban centers which carry large numbers of electoral votes, Williams said, adding that the electoral college benefits minority groups...
Williams spoke as a guest lecturer for Mayor-elect Ernest Morial's seminar on Urban Policy, Inter-Governmental Relations: A Mayor's Dilemma...
...that show, who deliver soliloquies as to why they ran away to Broadway to dance, the bruised youngsters in Runaways sing songs of woe about fleeing ugly homes for streets and scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic way is an urban Walpurgisnacht of the young. Through her cast, some of whom were actual runaways, she captures the abusive home life that gives these children a rage to escape, and the confusion, dread and loneliness that ensue. One song tells of a hitchhiker who stood on a highway holding a sign saying ANYWHERE...