Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the Mayor's first dilemma: he can undoubtedly use his prestige and influence to move the meager poverty funds still available into any of a number of directions. But funds are very limited--and has no way to get resources on the scale needed...
...what the United Front asks--hand over to the black community decisions about resource utilization. Quite specifically, an appropriate share of the funds for the various anti-poverty efforts which are now administered partly by the city and partly by the Federal government would be given to Roxbury to use as it sees...
There is a triple tragedy in this. Most important, it will mean the flight of profits out of the community -- probably into the suburbs as soon as the black entrepreneur can afford to use the profits to buy a split-level. It will also mean the loss of the entrepreneur's talent--for his creative skill will go into making his own fortune, not into helping the community...
Once again, the Marshall Plan comes to mind. What we are talking about is helping communities get on their own feet--through the development of industry--and through an institution which can use community profits directly for community services...
Pentcheff said that student activists in Eastern European countries are greatly influenced by American student activism. He said that they occasionally use slogans borrowed from American student movements...