Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed strange that on the very evening of the famous Bakke decision ABC-TV aired a frightening documentary. The film, titled Youth Terror, a View from Behind the Gun, was about the millions of hopelessly lost and bitter minorities in the urban ghettos of this country...
...originally an ambitious $20 billion effort to revamp the nation's tangled and scandal-ridden welfare system, was trimmed back by the President because of the cost-cutting mood on Capitol Hill. But efforts to enact even the truncated $14 billion version collapsed last month. Parts of the urban program have not even been sent to Congress. The National Development Bank, intended to underwrite businesses in economically depressed areas, stands no chance of being put to a floor vote before Congress recesses. The hospital cost control bill, designed to limit cost increases to 9% per year, was gutted last...
Winterset--Maxwell Anderson's urban plea for justice and young love. Closing on Saturday night at the Loeb, 64 Brattle...
...jobs. Says he: "It's just incongruous to conceive that elected officials aren't going to recommend people they have a high regard for." But spokesmen for Miami's poor complain that the program is being turned into a hiring hall for the middle class. Says Urban League Director T. Willard Fair: "The chronic unemployed are being left out of the system." Indeed, Fair's own $189,000 CETA job-training program is being investigated-for spending money on training programs for long-time employees who were already skilled in their jobs...
After military duty, the rural soldiers generally go to the urban reas, and the urbanization of the Soviet Union is compounded further by rural Russians migrating to Moscow and the ruling cities, Keenan said...