Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, still believes a small group of "neighbors kicked the hell out of" the proposal and that "the citizens of Cambridge screwed themselves." Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, hopes the library will be successful, adding that "any sense of disappointment of not having the whole cluster is well behind us." Some city officials, meanwhile, remain bitterly disappointed--officials who might agree with Crane's position: "October 20 is a day of mourning as far as Cambridge is concerned...
They have only one thing to do and they do it only once, mating in mid-air and then dying a horrible death. The female workers sometimes feed the young 1.300 times a day. When they dislike or distrust their leader, they cluster closely around her and crush or sting her to death. It is a process long known as "balling the queen...
...over, things are brewing. I live in the suburbs of Boston where for years there was virtually no awareness of the nuclear issue. After TMI an antinuclear group formed in my town, and now half a dozen affinity groups from the area make up the Central Massachusetts cluster. The participants range from high school students to grandmothers. An extremely diverse group of people have been calling in to offer their help and advice, including apple pickers, parents of small children, doctors, nurses and medical students, food cooperatives, Native American groups and even General Electric workers. We seem to have reached...
...black homeland states of Transkei and BophuthaTswana, which obtained "independence" from Pretoria in 1976 and 1977. The fragility of Venda's new status was even reflected in its stage-prop capital, Thohoyandou ("head of the elephant"). Pretoria had hastily fitted out the town for the occasion with a cluster of government buildings, a hotel, a supermarket and the stadium...
...flowing into the country at the rate of 12,000 a month. So far, the U.S. has taken in some 50,000 boat people and other refugees from the current upheaval, the highest total by far of any Western host country. New arrivals, who tend to cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with reliable sponsors who will help them adjust to their new life...