Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate added that he would privatize the departments of housing and urban development, education, energy and commerce...
...trained physicians feel that they are being underbid by the doctors from other countries. In the end, it is not simply a question of whether we have too many doctors in this country, but whether we have enough doctors in the right places. Most physicians prefer to practice in urban areas. Private practice physicians feel the big health plans are locking them out of their own markets, and driving down their incomes. Meanwhile, many people in tiny towns and rural areas cannot find a doctor nearby when they need help...
Assuming the threat sounds genuine, the team's first crucial task is to locate the bomb, which is presumably hidden. After flying in from around the country on military transport, NEST searchers divide the threatened city--the cia and fbi assume terrorists will target an urban area in order to incur maximum casualties--into search grids. Energy Department aircraft, specially fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors...
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS HAVE become fashionable among China's smart, urban set. Young men and women hold parties, exchange presents and finish up the night at local discos. This Christmas, however, such merrymaking was condemned. The Ministry of Public Security reportedly identified Christmas as a day for potential unrest because the celebrations bring groups of people together. The Workers' Daily, one of China's government-owned newspapers, criticized what it called the "Christmas craze" and gave a stiff warning to youths who "madly go after Western life-styles...
Former Interior Secretary James Watt pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to influence a federal grand jury that investigated 1980s influence-peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He could serve as many as six months in jail pand pay a $5,000 fine. Watt previously had denied charges that he tried to cover up his efforts to win contracts from HUD after leaving the government in 1983. But faced with 18 felony counts for perjury, he acknowledged that he kept documents secret that had been relevant to the grand jury's investigation, and by so doing reduced...