Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulldozers are gunning their engines, ready to level the heart of Central Square as soon as the remaining tenants can be forced out. If the Holmes Trust, which owns the four buildings fronting the Central Square plaza, gets its way, locally-owned businesses serving residents of the surrounding working-class neighborhoods will be replaced by six floors of upscale chain stores and high-priced apartments...
...Central Square is in many ways a remnant of an earlier age--a time when people lived in vibrant neighborhoods organized on a human scale. It has been a community for generations of immigrants and working people and a commercial district served by small businesses whose owners lived in the community and were a integral part...
...only look across Massachusetts Avenue at the hulking 14-story monstrosity that looms over the Square, or down Magazine Street at the 10-story upscale apartment building that is helping transform what was once a stable residential community into a transient housing market. We who live and work in Central Square look at these "developments" and say "Never again!" But there are those who cannot see communities and people and human needs, those who can see only money. And they look at our community and they see big profits--millions of dollars of profits to be siphoned...
...answer to the central question is surprisingly simple: BGLTSA members share one trait--a relationship to homoerotic desire. I believe they share little more...
Harris, who is under probation specifically over bacteria, may remain under scrutiny. A New York City tabloid called him a "mad scientist." And, if all this had been a movie, Harris might well have been sent by central casting. The 46-year-old has a full beard and a spastic eye. Then there is his home in Lancaster, Ohio. The first thing you notice when you enter Harris' world is the smell, the stench of numerous cats and dogs in a cramped bungalow. This is laced with the subtler scent of a basement filled with dried foods, stockpiled...