Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next guy will scratch his windshield." At another stop, 200 miles farther along on the fast-food chain, a hopeful French tourist inquires, "Ou est la salade?" Cherie, you are in the land of American fried here. No salad, no apples, no milk. Just mysterious bundles from some hellish central kitchen, lying sodden beneath the infra-red lamps...
...increasing numbers of whites moved to the suburbs, urban areas were saddled with a glut of housing that, by law, could be sold or rented only to other whites. As recently as last year, this white flight had left at least one apartment out of four in central Johannesburg unoccupied, and surplus housing nationwide reached a total of 37,000 units. Market forces gradually overcame legal ones, and whites began renting to nonwhites, often with the assistance of real estate agents who specialize in "C.I.A. listings," a coy abbreviation for "colored, Indian and African." In Johannesburg the largest concentrations...
...proposal, which will be considered by the Council in December, would prohibit anymore fast-food restaurants from moving into Central Square. It defines a fast-food restaurant as one that uses disposable dinnerware, does not have individual printed menus, and seats fewer than 75 percent of its customers at tables...
Officials said that fast food restaurants create litter and do not draw consumers from elsewhere to Central Square. License commission members also said that there were already enough fast-food restaurants in the area to provide ample inexpensive food sources...
Liquor licenses are capped, officials say, because Central Square has been plagued with alcohol problems. One-fourth of all drunk driving arrests in the city occur in Central Square, McDavitt said...