Word: urbanely
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...indictment that caught even insiders by surprise, Reagan Administration Interior Secretary James Watt today was charged with lying to federal authorities about more than $500,000 worth of consulting he did to help firms secure millions in Department of Housing and Urban Development funding. Watt faces a top penalty of up to five years in prison for each of 25 counts of perjury, unlawful concealment and obstruction of justice. The federal indictment charges that Watt -- who left Interior in 1983 -- lied to Congress and to a grand jury that was investigating the Reagan Administration HUD scandal, and withheld documents that...
Assuming the disappearance of cash, this ultra-paternalistic plan could rid urban areas of some considerable ills. Those who object to the plan's paternalism probably wouldn't have much lunch with a "Brother, can you spare a gambling coupon" program, but then again-as the adage puts it-beggars can't be choosers...
...indictment that caught even insiders by surprise, Reagan Administration Interior Secretary James Watt today was charged with lying to federal authorities about more than $500,000 worth of consulting he did to help firms secure millions in Department of Housing and Urban Development funding. Watt faces a top penalty of up to five years in prison for each of 25 counts of perjury, unlawful concealment and obstruction of justice. The federal indictment charges that Watt -- who left Interior in 1983 -- lied to Congress and to a grand jury that was investigating the Reagan Administration HUD scandal, and withheld documents that...
Hanoi's crisis is not just a race between urban planners and entrepreneurial developers. It is also about redefining Vietnam, in the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Le Mai, ``as a country, not a war.'' Established in 1010 during the Ly dynasty, Hanoi remained an unremarkable place until the turn of the last century, when France sent its best architects to what had become its richest colony. They designed grand theaters and government buildings, using the same proportional guidelines that gave Paris such remarkable balance in size and form, though French liberals of the time groused over ``la folie...
...mechanics of Hanoi's urban renewal would make any big-city mayor blanch. Renovating even a modest old building can require relocating as many as a dozen families into alternate housing, as American officials discovered when they tried to reclaim the former U.S. consulate, which they plan to take back this month. Nghien hopes Hanoi's new foreign friends will put up the $2 billion it will take to rebuild the city's ancient infrastructure. ``We are not going to be another Bangkok,'' he vows. It is going to be a long, hard fight, but that is something Hanoians...