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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business. The issues that divide the campaigners are remarkably few. Though Labor proposes the extension of nationalization in the steel industry and a state takeover of urban building land, road transport and water supplies, the substance of both major party manifestos agrees on the bread-and-butter issues that decide British elections. Both are for modernization, a 4% growth rate, 400,000 new housing starts a year, new antimonopoly legislation, and an overhaul of taxation and social security systems. The difference is one of philosophy and emphasis, with Labor predictably arguing for a stronger state hand in things, the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: They're Off! | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Four weeks of study by the Cambridge City Council produced the City's offer of the 40-acre Kendall Square site. NASA's budget, however, called for a good portion of the construction costs to be borne by urban renewal funds. And once the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority was assured the Kendall Square area would qualify for urban renewal funds, NASA promptly approved the site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound's Death Began Summer on Somber Note; Bickford Arrests, NASA Decision Highlight Events | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...synthesis of economics, geography, social anthropology and politics, third-graders study Cleveland as a shipping and commercial center, a melting pot of immigrants and native pioneers, and a city plagued by the problem of slum neighborhoods and urban renewal. Throughout, the aim is to encourage valid judgments and discourage rote recitations. "The youngster should be aware that he's in a society that has values, and that a careful choice of values is what determines a rational man," says English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curriculum: Fountains of Reform | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...million bond issue on new and improved schools in Negro neighborhoods. A biracial committee quietly formed in Cleveland has won a six-month moratorium on demonstrations for that city's new school superintendent, to give him "time to implement his program." In Los Angeles, an energetic new urban-affairs director named Sam Hammerman has brought about a close understanding between civil rights groups and the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Integration: Cooling It in the Schools | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS. Total cost: $315 million. To get local communities cracking on their own poverty wars, federal funds up to 90% of cost will be pumped into public or private nonprofit agency programs when requested, but again only if state Governors do not object. Also included are adult education projects to teach people 18 and older to read and write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Administration: The Politics of Poverty | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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