Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With civil rights on the way to enactment, the year-long legislative logjam began to break. Last week the Congress also: > Approved, by a 212-to-189 House vote, an Administration-backed $375 million urban-transit bill designed to aid cities in improving their municipal and suburban public-transport systems. Spread over three years, federal funds would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of transit-system renewal or expansion. >Shelved, by a voice vote of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Administration's longstanding medicare bill. Instead, the committee approved a measure that would boost Social...
...Party coffers. For their part, the Tories were trying to force Labor to discuss details of its plans for nationalization, which Harold Wilson's men have been deliberately vague about; in the end, Deputy Leader George Brown repeated an earlier pledge to bring steel, truck transport and much urban land under government ownership or control...
Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League-LL.D. He has made his career a quiet battle so that all men, regardless of color or belief, may enjoy the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution of the United States...
...gradual disappearance of voting along ethnic or neighborhood lines except in the case of the Negro, has "tended to undercut the political machine" in urban areas, Lane observed...
...theory of an urban "power elite"--composed of the rich and well-born--that make most of the important urban political decisions, Lane said this model was a bit oversimplified and suggested that in many cities there appeared to be several "elites," each concerned with a different aspect of government...