11.   But in one industrial niche, specialty foods, urban cores have been incubators for entrepreneurial companies.

12.   But the Clinton administration wasted the opportunity to invest in housing, transportation and public space, or to revitalize the urban core as an economic engine.

13.   But without a movement to generate sustaining jobs, particularly in tattered urban cores, no one can even come close to calling this antipoverty policy.

14.   Decades later, the inner suburbs are the first places where neighborhood decay spreads from urban cores.

15.   El Centro is focusing on the Kansas City, Kan., urban core for its loans.

16.   Earlier this month, both Kansas Citys were asked by HUD to quickly apply for supplemental loans and grants for economic development projects within the urban core.

17.   From Oakland, Calif., to Newark, N.J., urban cores once abandoned as hopeless are sporting restaurants and shops.

18.   In Kansas City, an expected population turnaround in the urban core, based on rising property values and lower crime rates, did not materialize.

19.   In America, the organization takes essentially the same tack whether the student group operates in the urban core or a small heartland town.

20.   In recent years, several cities have created urban entertainment centers to serve conventioneers and draw residents back to the urban core.