Word: slum
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...merchants got just what they wanted. Not a single window was broken. Order was re-established in the slum. The merchants have probably been right that the Square is going to hell. Where before they mutely watched the processes. they are now contributing to it. They have read "the problem of street people living in the Square" as the "problem of street people living in the Square ruining business," and with such obvious myopia, it is inevitable that their solution to the problem has been to crack down on street people's means of livlihood in the Square: where they...
Unfortunately, the apostles' tents and tree houses violated local health and safety codes. The county district attorney took Gottlieb to court, hoping to make him clean up his rural slum. He refused. The mess, he said, was God's problem...
...strong social conscience that showed itself in deeds rather than words. He was the prime force behind the rebuilding projects that converted downtown Pittsburgh from a tangle of blackened buildings to an area of gleaming skyscrapers in largely smoke-free air. The Mellon family's money has seeded slum-rebuilding programs and efforts to open jobs and business opportunities for blacks. For years Pittsburghers said, only half-jokingly, that Pennsylvania's late Governor David Lawrence, who was a power in the national Democratic Party, owed his prominence to the luck of having been Mayor of Pittsburgh when Mellon...
...political killings, victims of the extreme right and the extreme left. One of the dead: an eight-year-old child, who was killed when guards in a motorcade of President Joaquín Balaguer's Reformista Party fired at rock throwers as it rumbled into a Santo Domingo slum...
...physical aspects of poverty may be eliminated in the next several decades. Slum housing might disappear. But poverty itself would still be here. Then people would find it easier to ignore poverty because it won't be an eyesore...