Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shelters or eking out a life of not-so-quiet desperation on the street. A mere 1 in 300 New Yorkers may be a victim of AIDS, but that totals 27,000 people, a staggering 19% of all confirmed cases in the U.S. Says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., a nonprofit housing-development organization: "New York is the same as every place -- only more...
...with bankruptcy during the 1970s Gerald Ford was willing to let New York drop dead, the Reagan Administration seemed eager to bury it. Since 1980, cutbacks in federal aid have cost New York billions, with funds for subsidized housing alone dropping $16 billion. Despite a series of state and local levies that now place New Yorkers among the most heavily taxed citizens in the nation, the city has never recovered from those setbacks...
...public relations problem: "This administration is doing all it can to win back our streets. Some of it has been to address the image of the city. People need to feel secure, and ((a bad image)) adversely impacts business and tourism." He has also portrayed the outbreak as a local manifestation of a national crisis beyond his control: "If the problems of drugs and crime were only in New York, then you could ask, What is it that you folks are doing wrong? But all of our urban centers are afflicted similarly. The fact that it's happening somewhere else...
...read at or above grade level, 1 out of 3 drop out before their senior year, and those who do stay in school often take five to seven years to graduate from high school. The system itself is rife with troubles. Almost a third of the city's 32 local school boards are under investigation for corruption, building maintenance has chalked up a $500 million backlog, and a basic in-school service like nursing care has been slashed 86%. An impossible caseload of 1,000 high school students for every guidance counselor makes a mockery of the profession...
Before heading off for the welcome relief of superpower summitry, Gorbachev dispatched a telegram around the country ordering local authorities to make sure that peasants deliver grain to help solve the bread shortage. To ease tensions in the army, he issued a decree on improving the legal and economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate...