Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring, rooming groups with rising seniors and juniors are lotteried according to numbers assigned to the block. The largest suites are arranged first, and then the lottery numbers are rearranged after each round. Sophomores submit room preferences in spring and find out next summer...
...first victims was Jimmy Anderson, then 3, who developed leukemia in 1971 and died in 1981. Within a year after Jimmy's illness began, Michael Zona, 7, succumbed. He lived a block from the Andersons in Woburn, Mass., a tidy community of 36,000 just a dozen miles north of Boston. In 1980 Roland Gamache, 32, was struck by the disease. He lived next door to the Zonas. In all, 19 cases of leukemia, five of them fatal so far, were reported between 1969 and 1983 within six blocks of the Anderson house in what became known as Woburn...
Fighting broke out between clubwielding officers and demonstrators who hurled bottles and rocks while attempting to block police buses by throwing trash cans, constructing barricades or sitting in roadways...
Across the street, Graham Gund developers areplanning to build a small shopping complex,comparable to the Galeria on JFK St., for theproperty at 17-19 Mt. Auburn St. and 4-6 Arrow St.The real estate firm hopes to build a five-story,through-block arcade with four or five stores onthe ground floor and office space in the upperlevels...
...Cambridge and University activists envision constructing "a model type of community" in which homeless and low-income families would live and interact with moderate-income Cambridge families and Harvard affiliates. But the plan for an experiment in "totally income-integrated" living has run up against a familiar stumbling block that has fallen in the path of many similar idealistic projects before it: money, or the lack thereof...