Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side of the continent, Kalif Beacon, 45, has set up his Temple of the Rainbow Food Kitchen in an empty lot on Manhattan's run-down Lower East Side. Beacon, who is homeless himself and wears a stovepipe hat that makes him look like a character out of Dickens, keeps a flame burning constantly under his 20-gal. pots of rice, soup and beans. The New York City kitchen, which serves as many as 1,000 meals a day, is not his first such endeavor. Beacon, who calls himself the Fire Tender, says he has set up similar "temples...
...tuned his efficient and politically saavy administrative techniques since he began working for the University in 1975. In his projects at Harvard, this tough-guy image has brought Lashman as much criticism as it has praise. But it appears that such a style is just what the denizens of Beacon Hill are seeking...
Boston faces an even tighter garbage situation than New Jersey in the near future, according to officials at the Department of Hazardous and Solid Waste. The city exports all of its waste to landfills in eastern Massachusetts. Beacon Hill sends its trash to New Hampshire. Ten years ago, 400 landfills took garbage in Massachusetts. Since municipalities can veto new landfills, only one has opened in recent years. Today, only 190 landfills are in operation in the state and waste officials estimate that by 1990, three-quarters of these will close...
...guys don't have to go to city hall or to the organization you'll bump into top state officials in hall-ways and get what you need," White told the members of the Democratic Club Ward Five members. Ward Five is in the Beacon Hill area right near the state capitol building...
During the past year, the city's Licensing Board has under pressure from neighborhood groups refused to renew B.U.'s license to use some 60 apartment buildings along Beacon Street for student housing, Carleton said...