Word: children
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents of Cambridge's poorest and most racially diverse neighborhood have been struggling for several years to get concrete plans for the facility. Although Area Four is the city's most densely populated neighborhood for children, it does not have a teen center, but operates drop-in programs at local elementary schools...
...shocking story. Apparently, PBHA has just elected someone called Ehrenreich as president. Ehrenreich, with a haughty disregard for the PBHA tradition of providing cheerful, apolitical services to adorable underprivileged children, hopes to turn PBHA into a "central planning office" for the purpose of getting PBHA more involved in local electoral politics...
...judged to follow the Valdez Principles, a set of guidelines for environmentally sound practices. Most important of all, Americans, like the citizens of all democracies, have the ultimate political power to enforce their will. If they are anxious to have a cleaner, safer, healthier environment for themselves and their children, they can vote for political candidates who seem to share that sense of urgency...
...ward pols in the U.S. Several Politburo members, for example, held the presumably undemanding post of "honorary member" of the Construction Ministry's "academy," for an annual pop of about $10,000. Another favorite ploy was to requisition scarce building materials for use in the construction of homes for children and other relatives...
...liberals win, the '80s will be remembered--to paraphrase Jesse Jackson--as a dream for the few and a nightmare for the many. The decade saw political participation reach new lows and income inequality reach new highs. At current rates, 16 million American children will live below the poverty line in the year...