Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incumbent took East Boston, Charlestown and the North End by large margins, and he kept his usual edge in the liberal Back Bay despite the absence of support of someof the city's liberal leaders...
...sharp outflow of funds because the Federal Reserve's Regulation Q prohibits them from paying more than 5½% on passbook savings. A bill before the Senate would slowly phase out the interest rate ceilings by 1990. Meanwhile, says Robert Garver, president of Boston's Charlestown Savings Bank: "The money market funds are killing...
...returns from Tuesday's Boston City Council and School Committee elections are closely examined, one truth will become self-evident--the true Boston "pol" is a very rare creature. Instead, there are politicians who carry black wards, and those who win in Southie, and in Eastie and in Charlestown...
...election, gentrification will have expanded from Back Bay, the Fenway and the South End to the original streetcar suburbs--Charlestown, Brighton, Ashmont Hill and Jamaica Plain. More and more rising young professionals, children of affluence, born in VA-and FHA-financed suburbs, are opting for the brick townhouses instead of housing tracts and the Southeast Expressway traffic, and re-shaping the city with their Cuisinart, Volvo and exposed brick style...
Renovations for the waterfront area of Eastie, Southie and and Charlestown that White announced two weeks ago herald the changed atmosphere more affluent residents will bring. The theater district is becoming an established stop for shows on their way to Broadway. Quincy Market has more visitors than Disney World, and the Washington Street mall is earning downtown merchants record profits. Not to mention the Red Sox record-breaking ticket sales last year. People want to enjoy what a city has to offer. With a concentration of fresh enthusiasm and money, Boston's cultural life will explode, with even greater impact...