Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wore blinders," says Jones, who in 1989 took a sabbatical from his post as a professor of urban affairs at MIT to teach at the Morehouse College, a historically Black university. "It's only now that I've taken the blinders...
...little praise for former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp's policies...
Unfortunately for St. John's Church and others like it which have similarly conceded to the sad realities of urban life, the only recourse is to lie down--or shut down. St. John's has already hired a security guard whose salary doubles that of Father Gaspare...
...Boston Housing Authority is considering whether to ask the Department of Housing and Urban Development for $50 million to renovate the Mission Hill housing development, a neighbor of the Medical School...
MODERN MEDICINE CAN PREVENT A HOST OF CHILDhood diseases -- but not if kids don't get their shots. Only half of Americans age 2 and under are given the recommended vaccinations against measles, whooping cough and other diseases. In poor urban neighborhoods, the level is an appalling 10%. To deal with that tragedy, the Clinton Administration is looking at several proposals, including * a plan for the Federal Government to spend as much as $700 million to buy enough of various vaccines to give all children free shots. Currently, the required vaccinations for one child cost more than $250 -- up from...