Word: urbanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City crime statistics related to the influx of crack were released last week. The sheer numbers are staggering in their implications; and New York City is only the most visible example of a problem spreading throughout the country's urban and inner city areas...
...bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture the American dream for first-time home buyers...
...Most ministries realize how to reach rural people," says Whan, "but there are millions in cities, in high-rises and behind gates." To reach these urban populations, the telephone has proved to be a handy -- and safer -- substitute for door-to-door buttonholing and an ideal pastime, especially for older churchgoers. Whan claims that about 10% of those dialed by churches seem mildly interested at first contact; after follow-up letters and calls, some 1% of them end up visiting worship services. Calvary Church, in a yuppie enclave outside Tampa, did even better. After eight volunteer canvassers phoned...
...Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), which pervades Boston and most American urban areas, is a formidable creature. It has gnawing teeth and jaw muscles that bite with the force of 12 tons per inch -- on a par with a shark. It will eat almost anything, and has been known to attack human babies. Some of the Boston rats have lived their entire lives underground, and no one knows how they will behave when exposed to the cultural opportunities of aboveground Boston...
...many children of the urban poor so uncomfortable in school? One explanation comes from University of Chicago Professor Dolores Norton, who is conducting a unique study of the intellectual development of children in poor families. Her conclusion: growing up in an unstructured home environment, they do not develop a sense of time that enables them to adapt well to school. "When they come to school, these children enter a world that was not created for them," says Norton, who teaches at the university's School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language...