The budget's urban initiatives could certainly be more aggressive, given the need.

"This is the only urban initiative that Clinton has," Mr. Moss said.

By its own reckoning, one of the department's ambitious programs to improve city schools, a three-year effort called the "urban initiative," met with only mixed results.

Inevitably individual urban initiatives do not always fit solely within one or other grouping: there is a degree of overlap between the classifications.

Here, we outline and evaluate those urban initiatives that can be seen to have resulted from the drive for deregulation and decontrol.

Instead, he used the National Economic Council, which he once directed, to come up with a series of less costly urban initiatives.

He is an expert in sports violence, private-public partnerships, and the bundling of multiple urban initiatives.

Administration officials could provide no total spending figure today for their urban initiative.

The Commission suggests six; Parliament has added an urban thematic initiative, and this has been very largely approved.

The urban initiatives recently announced by President Clinton look dismayingly timid.