Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bank President David Rockefeller recently told a Senate hearing on urban problems, "capital investment is needed on an immense scale-an estimated $5 of private capital for each $1 of public funds...
...biggest role for business may lie in the future, when the U.S. sets out in earnest to reinvigorate its deteriorating urban centers. "In improving our cities,"Chase Manhattan
...less attention to states' rights and more attention to states' responsibilities." In other inaugural addresses and legislative pronunciamentos, Governors across the nation last week indicated that the states are at long last facing up to the urgent needs of an expanding population and an increasingly complex urban society...
...Urban Emphasis. Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, so nervous at his first inauguration that his hands shook and-as he admitted-he could "hardly talk," asked for basic revisions in the state's 1874 constitution, and proposed a thorough, professional study of state operations, which are now hindered by an incredible total of 187 boards and commissions. As if to make the Republican Governor's job of managing and coordinating the various boards that much harder, outgoing Governor Orval Faubus packed them with 93 last-minute appointments...
...problem of controlling the urban environment was high on nearly every Governor's list of concerns. In Ohio, Republican James Rhodes, who had not shown much concern for the cities during his first term, set up a cabinet-level Office of Urban Affairs, promised action to combat air and water pollution...