Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if Transrapid is not awarded the casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...
...Blacks did not participate in the Reagan Revolution. Only 3 percent of delegates to the 1984 GOP Convention were Black, and only 4 percent of delegates here in New Orleans are Black. Reagan's civil right stance was sharply criticized by Black organizations like the NAACP and the National Urban League...
Republicans insist Bush will make a greater effort to include Black Americans. Bush has spoken to the NAACP, and sent Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) to the Urban League's annual conference. He invited Coretta Scott King to the convention, and she sat with the vice president's wife. Benjamin Hooks, the NAACP's executive director, spoke from the GOP podium--in prime time--and Black Republicans from Maryland Senate candidate Alan Keyes '72 to former Transportation Secretary William Coleman were presented to the nation...
...fact is that two decades after the Kerner Commission warned that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal," the nation remains dismayingly segregated in its housing patterns. A recent study by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, found that 57% of American whites live in census tracts that are more than 99% white and nearly a third of all blacks live in neighborhoods that are more than 90% black. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 2 million people encounter racial discrimination in housing every year. Last week...
...Mexico Senator is a respected lawmaker who could counter Bentsen in the Southwest. As a Catholic and Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...