Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dukakis says any outside work he does will "be secondary to my work at the school." But his name keeps popping up in larger contexts, including mention as a possible member of President Carter's cabinet if any openings arise in the Housing and Urban Development or Justice Departments...
...member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Tsongas will pursue his interest in urban revitalization...
...frustration and resentment caused by inflation that presents the gravest social peril. In that sense everyone-rich and poor, urban and rural, blue collar and white-loses if people give up believing that inflation can be checked. Americans have accepted inequalities of income in their free economic system because they felt confident of having a fair opportunity to rise and prosper in the future. If they conclude that inflation continues to rob them of that chance, they may begin to question the system. Says Arthur Garcia, 43, who supports a wife and five children on a $19,000 wage...
When he faced the city's financial crisis, Dennis J. Kucinich had won two elections for the office of mayor of Cleveland (the second being the recall election) by being a kind of urban populist in a city composed almost entirely of poor, working-class ethnics and blacks. His slogan was "Power to the People," and he waged war against the "establishment" that exploits the city for its own profit from its downtown offices and suburban homes...
BANGKOK, Thailand--Vietnamese troops captured the last urban stronghold of the defeated Cambodian government's forces, but the retreating soldiers struck back in isolated attacks and set up mountain and island guerilla bases to carry on the war, Thai sources said yesterday...