Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could be seen patrolling the top floor with automatic rifles or shoulder-mounted ground-to-air missiles. In theory the air-defense teams could take out a threatening plane if it could be spotted, identified and targeted in time. In practice, the notion of firing heavy weapons in an urban area is probably unwise, particularly when one can stand on the South Lawn and watch plane after plane taking off and landing at nearby National Airport. Heat- seeking missiles have been known to find targets other than those intended for destruction. In any case, at nearly 2 a.m. on that...
...country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...
...accompanying soundtrack, his rag The Entertainer was heard constantly all over the country. And yet this genius, whose ambition it was to merge white European classical forms with black American rhythms and harmonies, has remained a shadowy historical figure, a mysterious creature of the late 19th century urban demimonde...
...proof is in the paperwork -- worn folders inches thick, filed at the public guardian's office, the courts, the police headquarters and now the medical examiner's office. Yummy's files are indistinguishable from the records of thousands of other urban American kids. The evidence -- if more evidence is really necessary -- is overwhelming: when a child's brain is flooded, the child eventually drowns...
Government 90zp. The Politics of Black Urban Regimes...