Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese face the same difficulties that the Soviets have encountered in revitalizing inefficient urban industries. Under the terms of a restructuring plan unveiled in October 1984, government and party officials must relinquish any direct role in running enterprises, making factory management responsible for profits and losses. A study of large and medium-size urban enterprises published in the Guangming Daily revealed that only 15% of the managers believed they had been successful in carrying out the reforms. An additional 65% claimed that some change had taken place but more innovations were needed, and 20% admitted that their operations lacked economic...
...clock; night and a new, black dawn are surely imminent. In Britain the empire has collapsed upon itself. A long generation ago the colonists came home, followed by their colonials -- dark skins, quick minds and rebellious hearts from the East and West Indies and beyond. Now England's urban centers are postimperial melting pots. The streets simmer with new neighbors and old rancors, and people are getting burned...
...creation of a coalition ready to support consociational reform, probably composed of elements from the Nationalist Party, Afrikaans and English business, the civil service, the military, "Colored" and "Asian" leaders, "urban middle-class Blacks, traditional Black leaders, and externally, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom." (p. 23) The government, Huntington wrote, may want to "divide and rule" Black groups, using "fragmentation among Black groups and the rivalry among Black leaders...to enlist some measure of Black support for the reform process...
...broad daylight in the urban jungle called New York. The harriers were carrying the Crimson torch through a tough, wooded Van Cortlandt Park course...
Right now Spy draws 80% of its circulation from the New York City area, but Andersen talks about tapping an "urban sensibility that goes beyond the city limits." The magazine is already available in 26 cities coast to coast, and the staff is working up a pilot for a possible half-hour series next fall on ABC. Meantime, there are growing indications that Spy is drawing blood from its target audience. A flack for the "churlish dwarf billionaire" Laurence Tisch was moved to call the editorial offices and point out, "Look, Larry is not technically, medically, a dwarf." Next issue...