Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 2,500 enthusiastic union delegates before him-applause punctuated his 35-minute speech 39 times-and a network TV audience, Johnson reminded his listeners of what he has done for them lately and not so lately, including two civil rights laws, immigration reform, an array of urban programs ranging from model cities to rat control, consumer-protection statutes, air-pollution control, minimum-wage increases and, inevitably, "81 months of solid prosperity to break all records in American history." Promptly and conveniently, the Labor Department announced that unemployment from October to November fell from 4.3% to 3.9%, while unemployment among...
...legislative record, each Congress writes its own short hand label: innovative or standpat, Micawberish or Scroogian, spineless or rebellious. The 90th's first session fell somewhere in between on each count. It reflected rather too faithfully the national condition of confusion and contention over Viet Nam and the urban crisis. Unable to change the course of either, its mood was often one of angry frustration. The fight over the proposed tax increase and efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings. In the House, where...
Champion succeeds Edward J. Logue as head of Boston's most powerful superagency, which handles all aspects of urban renewal and urban rehabilitation in the city...
...year-old Champion came to the Institute last February after serving six years as Director of Finance for the State of California. He is virtually unknown to Boston residents. But Daniel P. Moynihan, head of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night that among people who know public policy, "there aren't five men in the country with his reputation...
Kilbridge said that he will invite specialists in this field from outside the University to present their ideas to the seminar. "We are particularly interested," Kilbridge said, "in the computerized models of urban systems that some of these people have developed...