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Reviving Motown
If white racism, Coleman Young and a delusional dependence on the auto industry's belief in its own virtues put Detroit where it is today, whatif anything can pull this tragic city out of its death spiral?
You could do worse than to begin with some form of regional government. During Young's reign and for many years thereafter, the possibility of city-suburban cooperation which is to say, black-white cooperation was close to nil. The black city didn't want white suburbanites telling it what to do, and white suburbanites had no interest in assuming the burden of a black city.
L. Brooks Patterson, the long-serving and exceptionally able chief executive of suburban Oakland County, a prosperous community that borders Detroit to the north, represents the latter view well. "They say, 'As Detroit goes, so goes Oakland County,' " Patterson said a few weeks ago. "Not true!" He apparently believes that Eight Mile Road, the fabled thoroughfare that defines Detroit's northern border, is an impermeable membrane insulating his county from the city's ills. But Patterson knows that Oakland's prized AAA bond rating is in peril because the rating agencies are mindful of the county's proximity to Detroit to the south and Flint to the north. A downgrade could cost his constituents millions of dollars, and as the situation in Detroit deteriorates, he and his counterparts in adjacent counties will have no choice but to seek common solutions.

A. 어휘
racism 인종차별주의, 민족적 우월감. delusional 妄想的(망상적)인.
dependence 의존. virtues 장점, 미덕. f anything 글세, 어느 편이냐 하면.
spiral 螺線(나선), 악순환에 의한 나선상 진행과정.
death spiral 죽음의 나선형 진행과정. regional government 지방정부.
reign 지배, 통치. thereafter 그 후. nil 無(무), 全無(전무), 零(영).
suburbanites 교외거주자. assuming the burden 짐을 떠맡는 것.
exceptionally 예외적으로, 대단히.
chief executive 행정장관(지사, 군수, 시장), 대통령, 행정수반.
county 군(미국), 州(영국). border ...와 경계를 이루다.
latter view 後者(후자)의 견해. apparently 명백히.
fabled 架空(가공)의, 전설적인, 신화상의. thoroughfare 주요도로, 公道(공도).
impermeable 관통할 수 없는, 불투과성의.
membrane 동식물 조직의 膜(막), 皮膜(피막). insulate 격리하다, 絶緣(절연)하다.
AAA bond (A 세 개의) 안정적인 채권. rating 등급, 평가.
peril 위험. rating agencies 평가기관. mindful 염두에 두는, 조심하는.
proximity 근접. constituent 선거구민, 구성요소.
deteriorate 나빠지다, 타락하다. counterpart 한 쌍의 한쪽, 상대인물.
adjacent 근접한. have no choice but to seek 추구할 수밖에 없다.

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For its part, Detroit must address the fact that a 138-sq.-mi. city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn't efficiently service the yawning stretches of barely inhabited areas even if the city could afford to maintain those operations at their former size. Detroit has to shrink its footprint, even if it means condemning decent houses in the gap-toothed areas and moving their occupants to compact neighborhoods where they might find a modicum of security and service. Build greenbelts, which are a lot cheaper to maintain than untraveled streets. Encourage urban farming. Let the barren areas revert to nature.
Most crucially, the entire region has to realize that defining itself solely by the misperceived needs of a single industry has left all of southeastern Michigan dazed and bleeding. And yet the conditions for resetting that economic model couldn't be more favorable. The collapse of the UAW's prohibitive wage scale, coupled with the vast unemployment, is turning what was once the nation's most expensive labor market into one of the cheapest. For the first time since Henry Ford offered $5 a day to the men who assembled the Model T back in 1914, Detroit is open to new industry.

A. 어휘
address 주목하다, 겨냥하다. accommodate 수용하다.
way=very. sanitation 공중위생. department 部署(부서).
service 서비스를 하다, 공급하다. yawning 입을 크게 벌리고 있는, 하품하고 있는.
inhabit 살다, 거주하다. barely inhabited areas 사람이 거의 살지 않는 지역.
stretch 길이, 범위, 한도. shrink 줄이다, 수축시키다. operation 기능, 운영, 작전.
condemn 공익을 위해 재산이나 토지의 수용을 명하다. 폐기 처분하다.
decent 훌륭한, 우아한. gap-toothed 이가 빠진. occupant 점유자, 거주자.
compact 꽉 들어찬, 빽빽한. modicum 소량. security 보안.
urban 도시의. barren 不毛(불모)의, 不姙(불임)의.
barren areas 사람이 살지 않는 지역. revert 되돌아가다, 복귀하다.
crucially 결정적으로. define 한정하다. solely 단독으로, 주로, 오직.
misperceived 잘못 인식된. dazed 멍해진, 失神(실신)한.
bleed-bled-bled 출혈하다. collapse 붕괴. prohibitive 손댈 수 없을 정도로 비싼.
couple 결합하다. assemble 조립하다.

B. 구문
- the entire region has to realize . . . couldn't be more favorable.
[그 지역은 단 하나의 산업(자동차산업)에 대한 잘 못된 요구에만 관심을 한정시키는 것이 미시간 주 동남부 전체를 마비시키고 피를 흘리게 하고 있다는 것을 깨달아야 한다. 그런데도 경제모델을 다시 짜는 조건이 지금보다 더 좋을 수는 없을 것이다.]