Word: whiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"This can be achieved most effectively by requiring students who major in Afro-American studies to fulfill a good part of the academic requirements in an established discipline like Economics or Sociology, while simultaneously pursuing a specialized course in Afro-American studies," he said.
Most urban mayors would agree that while "the best things in life are free." it costs a hell of a lot just to stay alive. What worries most of them is the belief that the cities, particularly the central cities, are dying from fiscal starvation in front of an affluent...
Even while acknowledging the difficulty of determining optimal urban policy, some skeptical critics downplay the so-called urban fiscal "crisis." They contend that a disproportionate amount of the nation's wealth is concentrated in metropolitan areas, and add that this is particularly true for the New York area.
Prof. Gerald Boyle of the University of New Mexico has estimated aggregate elasticities for state and local governments between 1956 and 1966. What he found would not surprise any urban mayor, particularly John Lindsay. With every one per cent increase in income, expenditures grew by 1.1 per cent while revenue...
A working paper circulating in the Mayor's office estimates that "City revenues have a natural growth... of only about 5 per cent, while City expenses are now growing at a rate of 15 per cent."