Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to be in an urban environment because there's a lot more going...
Noticeably missing from the rankings are more well-known urban centers where recent graduates typically flock for employment, such as Boston, New York City and Los Angeles...
Martha Chen, research associate at the Harvard Institute of International Development, said that the epidemic had been caused by "break down of infrastructure, especially due to urban population growth...
...undercover agent, which made her recent experiment in black-market-document procurement all the more persuasive. The California Democrat decided to find out for herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They...
...doing enough to keep out illegal immigrants. For years now, the battle has raged between the federal authorities who are supposed to police the borders and the states who pay the price if they fail. Hoping for some ammunition, the Clinton Administration helped fund a study by the Urban Institute that for the first time assesses the costs of immigration. The study found that illegals drain about $2 billion a year for incarceration, schooling and Medicaid from the budgets of such major destination states as Texas, Florida and California. But the survey also discerned that for the country...