Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their job, namely to speak up for their reader by explaining the events of the big world to him or her by highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real people on an everyday basis. Not Bill Clinton's sexual exploits. Not the Kennedy's babysitter. Coz has won. America has lost. It's a tabloid world...
Although the committee's list of options, presented by Alex B. Krieger, professor in practice of urban design at the GSD, attempted to accommodate community concerns, most residents could not see beyond a few fundamental differences...
...development at Harvard is an exercise in complex urban planning...priorities abound and they conflict with one another," said Kenneth A. Shepsle, chair of both the committee and the Government department...
...year. Because La-Kia's mother Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school-tuition assistance for about 90 students. With persistence, Lester got $700 of it to keep La-Kia at St. Thomas Aquinas...
...focus groups, where people examine all their feelings on an issue, support for vouchers breaks down quickly over just how the vouchers should work. And among blacks, promoting vouchers, as Republicans often do, as a weapon against the obstructionism of the teachers unions doesn't always work. In many urban school systems, blacks make up a sizable part of the teaching force. Insult teachers, and you insult black voters, their families and neighbors...