Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, sources speculated that thecandidates included former Academic Dean Jerome T.Murphy, Professor of Education and Urban StudiesCharles V. Willie and Snow. But faculty and alumnithis year have said that while Snow would make agood dean, she may not want to remain in her post...
...proposed regulations, which become final in November, require 55 new urban areas to begin testing emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates...
...third provision, which would allow Lotus to be taxed a lower rate by extending a old urban renewal plan by 15 extra years, will come before the City Council and the planning Board on August...
Fayetteville is now turning up on lists of the most desirable communities in America, but only for those who want to get away from urban problems -- and amenities. Richard Atkinson, a professor at the law school, says his faculty has trouble convincing potential members that a move to Fayetteville will not drop them off the edge of the world. What do you tell them? I ask. "Well, we boast that we get National Public Radio here...
...SCANDAL. As the virtual queen of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1984 to 1987, Deborah Gore Dean administered programs intended for the poor to favor well-connected real estate developers and Republican consultants. Broadening a two-count indictment issued against her in April, a federal grand jury indicted Dean, 37, on 13 criminal charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy. The indictment accused her of using her position to dispatch $230,000 in HUD funds to John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General...