Word: borough
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...Public Safety officers at the scene tried to calm the situation, but they couldn't, and it took a Princeton Borough police officer who was in the area to unleash the wrath of pepper spray onto the crowd. Soon, around 24 cops were at the scene to clear the area...
Grace I. Kim ’10, raised in the borough of Queens in New York City, is a Korean Christian. She comes from a family that attends church services every Sunday and that has a verse from Thessalonians written in Korean in their dining room...
Agustin Torres, the newly sworn-in president of Mexico City's central borough, has proposed taking prostitutes off the streets and into a new "tolerance zone," like Amsterdam's red-light district, where sex workers can operate without the risk of police harassment and with access to contraception and health checks. The suggested circuit road on a nearby avenue away from family homes would help protect the sex workers against pimps and assailants, Torres says. "We have a duty to defend these people, who are simply doing their job," he told TIME. "Most of the residents of the area...
...extent, Wall Street's pay and its problems really are misunderstood. (Stop snickering! It's true.) Even though "Wall Street" means the nation's big financial and investing operations, not a geographical location, a disproportionate number of Street people live in Manhattan. Things in the desirable parts of that borough are expensive beyond belief, especially if you have children and feel the need to send them to $40,000-a-year private schools. But these people choose to live in Manhattan...
...enough [of the police TV drama] NCIS and all these kinds of programs to see links bouncing around the world and it ends up being in a hut in Guatemala rather than where it really is, which is probably in someone's bedroom in Islington," says Blaney. The London borough of Islington, former home of Tony Blair, is a byword for leftwing politics and Blaney believes his phony alter-ego will prove to be "one of half a dozen leftist bloggers who hate my guts." An attorney by trade, he's not a little chuffed at achieving the legal first...