Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston, New York and other cities throughout the nation, pairs of ATF agents and local cops set out to visit every local dealer listed in bureau files to inform them of their new obligations. The great majority of license holders turned out to be the kitchen-table variety. Most seemed to be hobbyists who merely used their licenses to buy guns at wholesale prices. But across the nation, police and ATF, prodded by the press, discovered kitchen-table dealers who had become conduits to the bad guys, in some cases selling thousands of firearms...
Harvard Square's popularity was demonstrated this week as nineteen local businesses were named "The Best of Boston 1999" by Boston Magazine. The publication awards prizes in 350 different categories each year...
...Boston Magazine also gave special recognition to some Harvard favorites. The magazine listed the defunct Tasty diner as a Boston Classic, eulogizing it as "the late, lamented, all-night greasy spoon, another victim of Harvard Square's decline into homogeneity." Harvard University and Yo-Yo Ma '76 were also declared "Boston Classics...
...Square establishments--Up Stairs at the Pudding, Pho Pasteur, Alpha Omega, and Marathon Sports--were also given the magazine's Hall of Fame awards. That honor is given to establishments having won an award for three out of the past five years, according to John Strahinich, executive editor of Boston Magazine...
...Boston Magazine has been publishing the Best of Boston list--whose contents were selected this year by the editorial staff and a web-site vote--for the last 26 years...