Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budding black enterprise at a time when the need for black entrepreneurship is much publicized by urban politicians and ghetto leaders, it would seem that Unity faces a dilemma. The bank must be concerned with extending new loan oportunities to people who may not have upheld their commitments in the past and must be concerned with its own success as a financial endeavor. Sneed and Fulp see this problem differently. "There are factions of both the black and white community that are watching to see whether we are going to pass the supreme test of survival," Sneed said. But Fulp...
...Urban waste disposal by shipboard incinerators...
Moeller said the department has traditionally been concerned with problems arising in the urban, industrial environment, such as air pollution and waste disposal. But the department hopes to initiate research projects to study risks to health arising in nature, such as cosmic radiation and radioactive material in the earth, he said...
Given the fact that "The Experience" is being funded through a federal grant the Boston Redevelopment Agency has received as part of an experimental urban beautification program, one can't help but suspect the city is really trying to drive the hippies away for good by giving them too much of their own medicine. If the attempts stay this tepid, boredom may become Boston's secret weapon...
...contradictions, observing that the frontier had also made Americans ruthless and violent and that many of the facts on which Turner based his theory did not check out. (For example, frontier settlers, who Turner insisted always wanted to broaden the vote, in fact often lagged behind their urban neighbors.) Turner's creative concept had caught the imagination, not merely of historians and students who revered him but of the people as well. It still does-witness Barry Goldwater's appeal in 1964 to the nostalgic hope of returning to the simple virtues of the American frontier...