Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alessandro told the parents gathered at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School that the Cambridge school district is facing rising expenses and declining student enrollments, and is projected to lose 187 more students next year...
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...
...then, having leveled the heart of Central Square, the Holmes Trust now proposes to build six stories of upscale shops and apartments, renting out the district and generating windfall profits for all concerned. Everyone, that is, except the people who currently live and work in Central Square. The developers have been met with opposition everywhere they have gone to peddle their plans. More than 3,000 residents have signed petitions opposing the project, and hundreds of people have packed every city organization meeting considering the special permissions the project needs because it violates planning and zoning board requirements...
...infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington...
...fixing crashed hard drives and finding lost files. And no one is more enthusiastic about laptop learning than parents; in communities like Washington Heights they have organized safety brigades to escort kids carrying computers from the school buses to their homes. In Little Falls, Minn.--a working-class district that distributed 276 laptops last year--parents volunteer and provide tutoring at local schools to defray the cost of their kids' machines...