Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luxury care will become very rare, since almost no coverage will pay for it. Nearly all doctors will probably be salaried employees of plans, and the rest will operate under a government-imposed fee schedule. As more family doctors and clinics spring up in neglected rural areas and scruffy urban neighborhoods, many Americans will find basic medical care readily available for the first time...
...nation would have been a shaming defeat? Maybe, but trying to decode word-for- word meaning here won't illuminate much. Aeonopolis, the author tells us, is almost impossible to leave: thus a waking nightmare of reason paralyzed, of civility blood-cursed, perhaps only degrees worse than the dark urban dream we ourselves can't get free of. Which may be meaning enough...
...band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental terms. Propelled by jagged guitar riffs and a buoyant rock beat, the 11 songs seethe with apocalyptic images derived from urban nightmares and primordial dreams. Dust storms, hurricanes and infernal conflagrations rake the world in a kind of New Age Armageddon. In the eyes of Midnight Oil, Mother Nature has been violated, and she's looking for revenge...
...forefront of the new movement are two leading proponents of urban bootstrap economics: Danny J. Bakewell, a wealthy real estate developer and president of the Brotherhood Crusade; and the Rev. Charles R. Stith, president and founder of the seven-year-old Organization for a New Equality (ONE) in Boston. Both men are pushing versions of the same idea: that economics is the key building block of political power. As Stith points out, in the U.S. the median white family's net worth is about $43,000, in contrast to $4,100 for the median black household. "The inescapable conclusion...
...black leaders. "There are new realities that are thrust upon us, and we can't operate as if the social realities are the same as they were in 1970," says Joe Hicks, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles. "The world has changed." The National Urban League, one of America's oldest civil rights organizations, has always focused on education and job training. This spring, using a two-year, $1 million grant from Atlantic Richfield, the League's Los Angeles branch will open a business development and training center to teach black would-be entrepreneurs...