Mayors of big cities often have plans to improve the slum areas of the city. From LearnThat.org.
Prince Charles: Dharavi slum is a model for sustainable living. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The word slum lord, as you know, is sort of an over simplification. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008] Reference
The slum is a direct by-product of the capitalist system of production. From Wordnik.com. [Saved – and Lost! The Sobraon Boys] Reference
DB --- The word slum has a pejorative connotation attached to in the west. From Wordnik.com. [SAJAforum] Reference
A belching chimney or a stinking slum is repulsive chiefly because it implies warped lives and ailing children. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Mumbai's Dharavi slum is slated for demolition, but residents, feeling left behind India's go-go growth, want to stay. From Wordnik.com. [March 20th, 2007] Reference
‘Even more than in the age of Marx and Dickens, the slum is the global health and environmental issue par excellence. From Wordnik.com. [‘Even more than in the age of Marx and Dickens, the slum is the global health and environmental issue par excellence. It is also the greatest challenge to human solidarity.’ « Gerry Canavan] Reference
« ‘Even more than in the age of Marx and Dickens, the slum is the global health and environmental issue par excellence. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Comics « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Built for 500,000 people originally, Brasilia soon outgrew its urban plan, housing residents in slum-like satellite cities. From Wordnik.com. [J. Michael Welton: Toward an Instant City] Reference
On the other hand, a good portion of the population seems to live in slum-like conditions and will for the foreseeable future. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza] Reference
The big expensive house where the rich live, surrounded by walls, with people living in slum-like conditions outside those walls. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Anthropomorphizing Coral Gables] Reference
I can tell you're very passionate about how the photograph captions use copious amounts of the the word slum so I won't stand it your way. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
He exemplifies the term slum on a personal level!. From Wordnik.com. [Rove to Obama: Attacking Palin is dumb] Reference
Currently, one of the older men in the slum is a go-to person. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The slum is their jungle, and they live and prey in the jungle. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
One building has been described as a slum nuisance by the city. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The slum is a microcosm of horrible conditions in much of the developing world. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph B. Treaster: In an African Slum, Clean Drinking Water Gets Low Priority] Reference
A slum is a place where there there is nothing good, where there is no survival. From Wordnik.com. [Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist & Autonomedia] Reference
I've never been through a slum, -- a horrid slum, that is, -- and I don't want to. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
We spent some time, too, in Kibera slum, which is just on the outskirts of Nairobi. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008] Reference
The slum is a bastion of support for fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia. From Wordnik.com. [2 gay men murdered in Iraq...] Reference
The slum is the second largest in the world, housing more than a million people in an area about the size of. From Wordnik.com. [The Shad Plank] Reference
Scores of angry Sata supporters rioted in a Lusaka slum after Banda took the lead in the race late Saturday. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The son of Irish immigrants, Lydon was brought up in what would now be classified as a slum in Finsbury Park. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference
Thursday the Democrats debate in California also airing on CNN, let's see if anyone gets called a slum-lord again. From Wordnik.com. [Busy, Busy Week] Reference
In Mumbai, for example, one-half of the city is classified as a slum, which overall represents one-sixth of India's GDP. From Wordnik.com. [TakePart Social Action Network™] Reference
Officials expect to take from two to five years to clear the slum, which is home to about one Ohio I have two house payments. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tele-buddy: Jeff Dunham launches Comedy Central series] Reference
She said the situation in the city centre, which an opposition party has described as a slum, was only symptomatic of cities after. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He has sued music director A R Rahman and Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor for allegedly calling slum-dwellers "slum dogs" in the movie. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, Senator Clinton brought it up, the so-called slum lord of Chicago tied to Senator Barack Obama. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2008] Reference
2 hr 8 min ago, -3/+17Why does every picture have to have both the word slum and favela. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
For the orphaned of Mumbai, however, the greater insult of the film is "slum," not "dog.". From Wordnik.com. [Jim Luce: Slumdog: Greater Insult "Slum," Not "Dog"] Reference
2 hr 36 min ago, -3/+20Why does every picture have to have both the word slum and favela. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
I don't "slum" and I don't even like most people as they have no real desire to be intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [What are we, without fear of death?] Reference
I have lived in two of her buildings at different times and never found the places "slum" coded. From Wordnik.com. [Barrett Bolts State Senate Race] Reference
Police demolished the buildings, home to around 50,000 people, in the Mandela slum which is inhabited mostly by migrants from war-ravaged. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The 'slum' status has irked local residents who have decided to raise their voice in protest. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
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