Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibility that has heretofore been met with programs meant to pacify dissident elements rather than alleviate problems. Isolationism, of course, is untenable today, and few responsible critics would endorse such a policy, but a thorough reassessment of our responsibilities will show that most of them lie untouched in our urban ghettos...
...Oteri has paraded a series of impressive witnesses before Judge Tauro, like his first star, Dr. Joel Fort of San Francisco, who said that drug use is "pervasive in American Society"--30-50 per cent of the urban college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically harmless and in some cases beneficial...
Buffalo Grass. All these demands, but especially the demands of nature, appealed to I. M. Pei. As the designer of Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza and Montreal's Place Ville-Marie, Pei had coped with urban environments but never with a rugged country site. The first designs that he and his associates prepared used a conventional big-city, floor-by-floor structure. All were dwarfed by the mountain. Then Pei took a trip to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, saw how Indian pueblo dwellers built blocklike homes that melded harmoniously with their mountainside surroundings...
...cheaply and is a potent force in narrow ing the gulf between employers and men with prison records. Bonabond lists 355 vouched-for employables in its files, and in the past two months has placed people in 98 jobs, ranging from porter to police-community relations aide for the Urban League...
Originally devoted to sheep and cattle, over the years the land has been turned to farming (barley, potatoes, wheat) and later to citrus on a vast scale. The real crop began coming in only a decade or so ago, with the steady outward creep of urban Los Angeles, 35 miles to the north. As the megalopolitan sprawl pressed at its fences, Irvine's real estate value soared to well over $1 billion...