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Word: blight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Community development] tends to be in places where there's a lot of adjacent blight, and the institution realizes that this is jeopardizing its ability to attract students and faculty," Grogan said...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Housing Plan Means Windfall for Local Cities | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...drugs, rock and roll and all that other bad stuff was far, far away--across 96th Street, that is. Blight was a problem only in the abstract, a construct of my parents' liberal imaginations...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: END OF THE LINE | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

They're finding eager pioneers among couples like Amanda and Michael Hale. The Hales think sprawl is too kind a word for conditions they rejected around Atlanta. They call it suburban blight, a strip-malled world void of rituals like walking to a store or enjoying an attractive building. "We want our four children to grow up in a community, not at a highway exit," says Amanda, 33, a nurse. Michael, 34, director of a charter school in Durham, N.C., says their yen to escape grew urgent this year as alienated kids shot up suburban schools in Colorado and Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Suburbia | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...lost control of American society. The moral center of gravity shifted from middle-aged authority to youthful impulse. So did the commercial center of gravity: the boomers were a gold mine. Now we live in an enduring vacuum of grownups, taken from us in the way that blight obliterated the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys and the Bees | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...item neglected in the rush of the week's news: it was revealed that Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who stormed the U.S. Capitol last summer, killing two police officers, did it because he feared being contaminated by "Black Heva," a blight that he considered "the deadliest disease known to mankind." Black Heva (which exists only in Weston's mind) spreads by way of the rotting flesh of cannibals' victims; Weston shot the policemen because they were cannibals preventing him from getting to the "ruby satellite," a device that is the key to halting Heva-breeding cannibalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Coming to Clarity About Guns | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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