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- adjective Alternative spelling of
inner-city .
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Examples
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These tend to be areas such as innercity neighborhoods or isolated rural areas particularly hard hit with the recent economic recession.
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The problems of innercity schools are in large measure the problems of grinding poverty.
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Got any proof that it is cheaper to rip up a street dig up an old line and put in a new, large one, the re-pave the street than to lay pipes under vacant land? ambrown: which long term is actually a lot more costly than investing in innercity transportation.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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However, PDC (like City Council) has this myopia about downtown and innercity areas like MLK.
Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I understand your frustration that is the "boondoggle" that is the Portland Streetcar, but light rail construction such as Seattle's Link and Portland's MAX are making sure that people like you, living in the city, don't have to subsidize roads/schools/infrastructure out in the suburbs, which long term is actually a lot more costly than investing in innercity transportation.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The builder missed the up market, now is trying to sell a innercity westhills lot at a loss.
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Why is it that we are comparing Hawaii with the innercity?
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We would care just as much about some kid who is getting a substandard education in some innercity as we would about our own child who goes to a good public school in the suburbs.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “People are lame” 2008
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Perhaps you should spend money visiting innercity communities right here in the US to look at the plight we are facing daily, than visiting countries that, if you did become president you will have enough time to do!
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Do you know how many years Lamont spent teaching in an innercity high school?
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