Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hall says he stressed to his fellow students the importance of their own education. "I said, `Don't be stupid, we need doctors, too, and lawyers and urban planners...
...gladly -- and legally -- let them pick up the tab for steak dinners at Morton's in Washington and golf games all over the world. Reports put his holdings of stocks, real estate and other assets at anywhere between $700,000 and $2.3 million. Longtime political observers note, though, that urban-machine politicians -- and at least some members of Congress -- long regarded the paying of ghost employees and "cashing out" of stamp funds as routine prerogatives of office...
...should also ask whether the Square is as unique as it claims to be. Is the Square as unique as it claims to be? While the Tasty is one of a kind, does the rest of the Square deserve the same bragging rights? Urban Outfitters, The Gap and Tower Records certainly aren...
...many large U.S. cities, a new breed of chief executive is performing fiscal triage. Urban reformers from both parties have fixed on programs grounded in austerity, responsibility, safer streets and the wooing of business through lower taxes. Managers rather than politicians, they apply private-sector solutions to chronic urban woes and switch over to the technocratic jargon without pause. Such savants include Bret Schundler of Jersey City, New Jersey, Frank Jordan of San Francisco, and Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis, Indiana, the so-called Prince of Privatization, who refers to his citizens as "customers." Goldsmith believes in "marketizing" his city -- making...
...mayors see little alternative. Since 1981, two-thirds of federal support for the cities has dried up while the urban problems of crime, drug use and homelessness have burgeoned. Corporations and the middle-class families they employ have fled to the suburbs, taking their potential tax payments with them. With doors shut in Washington, mayors were forced to look at their own bottom line...