Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUSH'S inability or unwillingness to translate promising rhetoric into tangible policy can be seen on other domestic fronts as well. Relying on some vague "thousands points of light", Bush has also done virtually nothing of consequence to help the homeless and the "underclass" in America's major urban areas...
...Deng's modernization program. To save money and to lessen tensions with the Soviet Union, the P.L.A. was trimmed from a peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult to produce their annual quota of recruits. As a result, some | communities have begun to impose fines on youths who refuse to enlist. "Recruitment is even harder...
That, to Hurlbut, is what local activism is all about. "Ten years ago," he recalls, "people thought this filth was just something that came with the urban landscape. Now there's a consciousness that we don't have to stand by and let it happen...
...hotel project is on hold, but the University has filed an objection to the Crystal petition. Associate Direcate Director for Urban Planning Marilyn Lyng O'Connell said that despite a series of amendments weakening the petition, it would still impose sever limits on Harvard's development rights...
Whatever the location, though, the Evangelicals are handily winning the game of enlisting members. Most mainline churches do not consider it their mission even to compete. Despite mainline emphasis on racial justice, conservatives in , the Southern Baptist Convention and Assemblies of God are more adept at recruiting urban blacks and Hispanics, just as they are more successful at planting new churches in growing suburbs. When John Vaughn of Southwest Baptist University compiled a list of America's fastest-growing Protestant congregations, 445 of the 500 were outside the mainline...