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1. The police say Father Gabriel Maire was the victim of a robbery attempt, but the Archbishop of Vitoria, the south-eastern Brazilian city where he worked in a slum parish, said he was killed because of his pastoral work.
2. IN THREE decades at the top, President Flix Houphouet-Boigny transformed a tropical slum into a model for Africa.
3. While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable, developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords, people who, even as they tear the hearts out of cities, simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis.
4. Fragmentation takes place where blocks of low-income poor housing and their associated populations are broken up and dispersed, either through deliberate slum clearance and dispersal of population, as in the late nineteenth century (Stedman Jones, 1971); or by the decentralizing effects of the policies of earlier post-war years, overspill outer estates and new towns; or through the later processes of "gentrification" (Glass, 1964) - a term first used by Ruth Glass but popularized in the late 1970s - i.e. the emergence of new wealthy areas as in Islington or Docklands and the displacement of the poorer local population, likely to be further encouraged by the impact of the poll tax.
5. In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel, a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before.
6. Sad to say, the neighbourhood had been pulled down as "a slum" in 1927, a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway.
7. It was this working-class section of society who lived in poor rented, often slum, accommodation, were subject to serious ill-health, and denied the possibility of holidays.
8. Do East Europeans want their capitals to resemble New York, with its skyscrapers of wealth alongside slum ghettos?
9. Some of those who attacked ministers' devotion to the "social gospel" were attacking a penchant for education bills, county council elections and slum clearance, but they would not have been as upset by a renewed campaign for disestablishment, which, no less than educational reform, could not be achieved without political action.
10. the clearance of slum areas,
11. It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.
12. Roberts has recalled the houses in his own slum district of Salford where two or more "old maids", or "old faggots" as the teenagers mockingly called them, lived together.
13. The Chamberlain Act also provided for subsidising slum clearance schemes.