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inner cities

n. (inner city English)

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By floater, then, he proceeded up the flank of the Mount, through the ring of Slope Cities and that of Free Cities and that of Guardian Cities, past Morvole, where Elidath was born, and Normork of the great wall and the great gate, past Huyn, where the leaves of all the trees were scarlet or crimson or ruby or vermilion, past Greel of the crystal palisade and Sigla Higher of the five vertical lakes, and onward still, to the Inner Cities, Banglecode and Bombifale and Peritole and the rest, and on, on, the party of floaters racing up the enormous mountain.

The city engineer can bitch all he wants, but CONARC has designated the inner cities as the defense zones, screw the suburbs.

Horrible diseases, fires raging in the inner cities, crop failures, genetic chaos, temperatures soaring and dropping, panic, looting, suicides, scorched bodies, arms torn off, millions dead.

Access was controlled by a numerical keypad affixed to the hull, minimum security for a vessel that would dock in crowded inner cities.

More riots in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, the inner cities left to rot or burn.

Lead poisoning, which is endemic in inner cities, also causes serious learning deficits.

As in the coastal areas, defenses were just starting construction around the inner cities and forts were being constructed in the suburbs.

They have issued an ultimatum to the barons that they must open the high passes and allow the Protectorate's forces free passage to the inner cities by Jairly's new moon, or suffer the consequences.

The singer was a brilliant new American artiste named Tracy Chapman, and the song spoke of racism and riots, and the appalling violence that has sadly become commonplace in the impoverished inner cities of America.