Fiscal, Economic, and Social Crises Confronting American Cities: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session ... January 30, 1992 ... May 13, 14, 1992 ... June 23, 1992 ... September 17, 1992 .... |
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... going to them , I want to call first on Senator Garn , and then on Senator Sarbanes . OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JAKE GARN Senator GARN . Well , thank you , Mr. Chairman . I hesitate to make the comments I'm going to make because it's ...
... going to them , I want to call first on Senator Garn , and then on Senator Sarbanes . OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JAKE GARN Senator GARN . Well , thank you , Mr. Chairman . I hesitate to make the comments I'm going to make because it's ...
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... going on too long , Mr. Chairman , but I think that point needs to be made strongly . Despite the fact that I'm 20 years out of date from being a mayor , I think these mayors would agree with me that they were elected in their ...
... going on too long , Mr. Chairman , but I think that point needs to be made strongly . Despite the fact that I'm 20 years out of date from being a mayor , I think these mayors would agree with me that they were elected in their ...
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... going to be talk- ing about economic vitality of the country , that , as Senator Sar- banes has pointed out so eloquently , you cannot have an intelligent discussion of that matter and exclude 40 percent of your popula- tion . That's ...
... going to be talk- ing about economic vitality of the country , that , as Senator Sar- banes has pointed out so eloquently , you cannot have an intelligent discussion of that matter and exclude 40 percent of your popula- tion . That's ...
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... going to be available to people with less than a high school diploma , that isn't just costing cities ; that's cost- ing us all . That's going to cost every single one of us in this coun- try . Only 20 percent of the jobs in this ...
... going to be available to people with less than a high school diploma , that isn't just costing cities ; that's cost- ing us all . That's going to cost every single one of us in this coun- try . Only 20 percent of the jobs in this ...
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... going to read every word of it and I already have lis- tened and read much of what is being said around the country , and I couldn't agree more with my colleagues . We have been lucky to date , lucky that we haven't had explo- sions in ...
... going to read every word of it and I already have lis- tened and read much of what is being said around the country , and I couldn't agree more with my colleagues . We have been lucky to date , lucky that we haven't had explo- sions in ...
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Page 260 - ... of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.