Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After 38 years in the Boston area, the New England Patriots announced last week they will leave Massachusetts in 2001 for a new stadium to be built in downtown Hartford, Conn. The move, which comes after negotiations with Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft to keep the Patriots in the Commonwealth failed, is hardly surprising: The sad state of professional sports has finally arrived in Boston...
...getting away from the stigma and the suffering," explains New York University African studies professor Tricia Rose. Some urban blacks were able to straddle the fence, black at home and white at work. "You would have neighbors," says Golden. "But when you saw them downtown at the job, you knew not to speak to them." But for many, like Eston, it has been a path of no return. To be found out would mean losing status, jobs, opportunities--if not meeting violent results--so familial ties were permanently severed...
Dorris, who engineered the council's pursuit of Dave Matthews, said he had hoped to bring the band to the 3,900-seat Wang Center in downtown Boston since the biggest on campus venue, Sanders Theatre, holds only 1,100 students...
...affectionately) known as The Big Dig, was started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called for Boston's exposed artery--its largest eyesore--to be buried. The Artery's traffic will be carried instead along a 10-lane underground expressway. Anyone living downtown better be ready to feel safe above hollow ground: most of the city's notoriously sludgy earth will be infiltrated by miles of tunnels traversed daily by as many as 245,000 vehicles...
...took the Red Line to Downtown Crossing, then switched to the Orange Line and got off at Malden Center. Emerging, I noticed the crisp green grass of Macdonald Stadium, and the players chasing the ball on the field. I endured the tortuously-slow line on the staircase and finally exited the T station...