However, too often, inner cities are viewed as places of blight, poverty, and social ills.
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"There are several pockets of blight around the city, and as a result, absentee property owners have responded by boarding up their properties, " said Mark Fogelman of Fogelman Management Group, a closely held property firm with 5, 000 units in Memphis.
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Mr Bush's own father may have been a victim of statistical blight.
As part of the Recovery Act, you cleaned up contaminated sites across the country, which helped to rid neighborhoods of environmental blight while putting Americans back to work.
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But hardly any details have been decided, particularly the tricky ones of how this will ease South Korea's blight of overcapacity in practically every industry, from shipbuilding to semiconductors.
The story is one of parallel worlds, dodging back and forth between a magical realm under the blight of a terrible curse and the town of Motorville a 1950s landscape of white-picket fences and shiny, colorful cars.
"Stopping young people taking up this deadly addiction in the first place will not only reduce the number of lung cancer cases in the future but a range of other illnesses that continue to blight the lives of so many people, " she added.
How can this blight of worklessness be squared with Britain's much-trumpeted low rate of unemployment?
If she were made prime minister, it would hardly reduce the blight of nepotism.
The surroundings in which he died certainly illustrated how the blight of drugs can affect a neighbourhood.
Finally, the scabrous politics of Washington could blight federal assistance to improve manufacturing.
The Scottish government argued the legislation would help rejuvenate Scotland's high streets and reduce the blight of empty properties.
The line came to encapsulate the borough's urban blight of the time.
Ms Cunningham said the legislation would remove doubt over croft boundaries and address the blight of absenteeism, neglect and misuse of crofts.
Overall crime, according to the British Crime Survey, down by 4 million incidents a year, with the blight of burglary down to its lowest level for over 20 years.
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So, although Asia mostly has been spared the blight of war for nearly a generation, it is on the front lines of other threats to prosperity and the pursuit of happiness.
And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pickup, building code enforcement all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continues to haunt us.
They fear there will be an overconsumption of resources that will blight the planet.
They fear there will be an over-consumption of resources that will blight the planet.
Yet for all Europe's excoriations of Gitmo as a blight on America, no one jumped at this easy chance to reduce the prison population.
You know, he understands that it is the blight on - of America's image overseas.
Their (occasional) efforts to do so impoverish already destitute people, and blight their hopes of economic take-off.
They are intended to help fill the large gaps in meteorological knowledge that exist over the world's oceans, and which blight the work of weathermen.
They would be a toxic blight upon all of us.
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Labour rejected criticisms of the bill, arguing that it was "sensible" and "proportionate" in allowing councils to deal with "very real concerns" that blight large numbers of their constituents.
And it was a reminder that in Washington we should not permit people with political motives to blight the careers of civil servants and blame them for failures of management and policy at the top.
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We believe the best way to do this is through a combination of tough enforcement and education, such as the No Knives Better Lives campaign and the work of Violence Reduction Unit to tackle the root causes of violence and end this blight on our communities.
The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
Even more expensive is wood from chestnut, a once ubiquitous species that ceased to be a source of timber not long after chestnut blight arrived on this continent around 1890.
As a late comer to this neighborhood, my experience began with loss of infrastructure- churches and stores moving to greener pastures, burned out houses, and a reputation of crime, drugs, and blight.
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