Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's fencing team was not coronated as the champions of New England yesterday at Boston University. The Crimson had to fence 40 bouts just like every other team...
...knew what job would suit him next. If his ally David Stockman, then the embattled Budget Director, departed, Darman thought himself a natural for the Office of Management and Budget. Word of his ambition seeped out. A newspaper column scoffing at his qualifications got big play in Boston, and his ailing father saw it. The younger Darman seethed, and not only because of the criticism. Later he confided that he was upset partly because "I still wasn't successful in a way that really meant something to him." Or to himself, for that matter...
...Boston local members of the bricklayers union act as nonprofit housing developers. On low-cost land the bricklayers acquired from the city, they are building modestly priced homes that first-timers buy with mortgages subsidized by the state Home Ownership Opportunity Program. Eleanor Santosuosso, 45, will soon move -- along with her husband, three sons and her mother, 75 -- into a four-bedroom town house that the family won the right to buy for $97,000 in a lottery last year. Says she: "Even my mother says she has always dreamed of owning a home. She figured it was an impossible...
...nightmare seems like something out of the Middle Ages: an army of voracious rats emerges from Boston's sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse and move into the town houses in tony Back Bay. As panic rises, the assault becomes the biggest threat to the Boston area since Paul Revere warned that the British were coming...
Besides being a steady point-getter in meets, Rainey has already captured the Crimson record in both the 200-meter run and the 50-meter dash. Her time of 24.50 in the 1988 Greater Boston Championships set the record for the 200-meter dash and she broke the 55-meter record with a 7.21 at last year's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet...