Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty neat things have happened in the last few days down in Providence enough to merit a broad reconsideration of the city, in fact. Because if you like good civic scandals. Providence's current brouhaha is about the best in recent memory...
...mother and a nimble au pair, also forced Hynde to "tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments for advanced...
Council power hangs in a tenuous balance between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-affiliated councilors, who favored the smoking ban, and the conservative Independents, who opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unfairly restrict private enterprise...
...bothered me that somebody who had delivered such a blow to the civic community should have his name on a list of Harvard Award recipients," De Huff said yesterday. "The Sun-Times has already deteriorated drastically since Murdoch took it over...
...Huff said that she had earlier informed Field in a letter that she was going to propose the disavowal of his award. Field "shamelessly pulled the plug on a major civic institution," she said. "This is not what the Harvard Club stands...