Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best thing that can happen to the Combat Zone is development, especially if units of low and moderate-income housing can be put there. Boston needs housing much more than it needs seedy clubs...
Developers have said that the Combat Zone can bridge the geographic gap between downtown and Back Bay. The transformation of the Zone from the sleazy place it is today to a vibrant part of the Boston economy can only be a good thing for both the city and the state...
...someday, when the drug-addicted prostitutes have disappeared along with the junkies in the alley-ways, when the Combat Zone is as long-gone as old Scollay Square, I might even want to have an office there...
WHEN Andy Puopolo '77 was stabbed and killed after going to a strip joint back in 1976, the Combat Zone housed 39 adult entertainment places and covered several city blocks. Now only a shadow of what it once was, the Zone contains fewer than 11 adult entertainment stores and only three strip clubs, extending barely one block...
...Combat Zone, the cliches are reality: a man sleeps crumpled in a doorway holding a bottle in a brown paper...