Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of the bleak picture she painted,Heyzer at the same time emphasized the power whichgovernments can wield in achieving "genderjustice." The Malaysian government, Heyzer said,significantly improved the lives of females bydeveloping a policy to educate rural women. Whenwomen migrated to urban centers, she said, theirskills and education allowed them to be easilyintegrated into the formal workforce...
...three main characters are roommates who could be the three Musketeers, except that their motto is simply, "All for one." David (Christopher Eccleston), a bland accountant, Alex (Ewan McGregor), a cocky journalist, and Juliet (Kerry Fox), a frosty doctor, all live together in a flat in urban Scotland...
...middle-class families form the bulk of the 30% of American households that own computers. Similarly, wealthier school districts naturally tend to have equipment that is unavailable to poorer ones, and schools in the more affluent suburbs have twice as many computers per student as their less-well-funded urban counterparts. All this disparity comes to a head in this statistic: a working person who is able to use a computer earns 15% more than someone in a similar job who cannot...
...research director of the Consumer Federation of America, argues that there are no panaceas for national concerns about the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Nor, he believes, will eventual computer literacy and Net access do much to end the blight of poverty, illegitimacy, rural isolation and urban decay. ``There's always going to be an unequal distribution of income,'' Cooper says. That's probably true, but at the very least, the new technology should unleash all its considerable energies toward the goal of preventing those problems from getting any worse...
...simpler combinations of technologies could be used to create highly efficient urban-transportation systems. Buses, subways and private cars would be superfluous under a plan proffered by Nobel laureate Arno Penzias at Bell Laboratories. In his vision, a fleet of passenger vans, each equipped with a global-positioning system and cellular phone (plus whatever amenities its operator chose to offer) -- all linked by computer to a central dispatching program, would provide total customized coverage of every street and every neighborhood in town, 24 hours...