Word: urbanely
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...that the money could be withdrawn for educational and other family-related purposes without paying taxes. Finally, he promised to rechannel some federal funds into direct grants for job-training.Payment for all this, as predicted, would come from steep budget cuts at the department of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (where, the president said, 60 programs will be streamlined into four). The result, Clinton said, would be "a leaner, not a meaner, government." And he reiterated his commitment to lobbying and campaign reform and called for a more upbeat national dialogue: "We have got to be a community again...
Strong ethnic flavor and warm community cooperation make Inman Square an urban anachronism, a reminder of an era when stickball ruled the streets and store owners spoke to customers in their native tongues...
Four federal agencies are bracing to hack away at their own budgets to fund the Administration's $50 billion middle-class tax cut, the cornerstone of the critical nationally televised address President Clinton is set to deliver Thursday night. Administration officials names the departments of Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services. All four were considered for complete elimination, but were spared after their heads agreed to severe budget cuts. HUD, for instance, may be trimmed by selling off some of its public housing stock and making the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages, an independent...
...January 1993, economic and personal desperation reached a tragic and nearly fatal crescendo within my Little Brother's family. What followed was an urban social services nightmare even people like Bob Coles would find difficult to narrate. I will never forget my Little Brother's small, trembling body as he lost himself in the temporary safety of my embrace in the cold, dark corridor of his apartment building that awful day. As I walked back to Quincy House, by way of Harvard street, I paused between snowflakes, tears frozen to my cheeks, enraged that I couldn't save him from...
...Sunday, Clinton said he would propose the tax cut if he could find a way to pay for it. How? TIME White House correspondent James Carney says the leading solution's hidden in plain sight: preliminary Administration proposals revealed last week to scrap the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as other federal agencies and dozens of federal programs. "This is all about a search for money to pay for a tax cut -- and about looking like he got the message from the November elections," Carney says. Look for a cut targeted "right in the middle...