Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheers for Flaherty were more than just sympathy. The state representative was instrumental in engineering changes in the state Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement structures, bringing the hospital more rewards for caring for the urban poor...
...Urban League of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia public schools and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund have also filed briefs supporting...
Summer in the city can be a scary thought to the uninitiated. Oppressive heat and humidity, poor air quality and the stench of city streets combine to create a desperate impulse to escape from the urban jungle to the beach...
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros was supposed to attend a select dinner at the White House last week, but he had a more compelling social event on his calendar: a birthday party for his six-year-old son John Paul. Cisneros, a father to remember this Sunday, went home that night laden with gifts. "In the old days I might have told Mary Alice ((his wife)) we could make the Clinton dinner," says Cisneros, "and we would make it up to John Paul the next day or over the weekend...
More broadly still, some politicians believe the Los Angeles election foreshadows the twilight of liberal mayors. Says Eric Schockman, a University of Southern California political scientist: "The end of the economic growth machine in urban areas 2 1/2 years ago brought joblessness, escalating crime because you could no longer afford to fight it, and now a shift in big urban power structures. L.A. is one of the dominoes along the way." Schockman foresees a new kind of leadership aimed at transcending ethnic and economic divisions and "saving us from ourselves...