Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooft checked in and promptly swished from downtown to open up the Crimson lead, 20-12, with just under 14 minutes left in the half...
KAREN, 14, met a pimp in downtown Minneapolis one day at 10 a.m. He bought her breakfast and took her to an apartment and bedded her. Next day she quarreled with her parents over having stayed out most of the night, so she ran off to see her new friend. He said she would have to work the street to stay with him and steal money from her customers so she could get their bus fare to Chicago. Once there, she earned another $800 in three weeks. The two moved on to Manhattan, where she picked up men around luxury...
...Employers made a new wage offer; but the major stumbling block remained container shipping's threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file, so containers will not begin moving immediately and the shortages will last a bit longer...
...rolling hills of southwest Oregon, 140 miles north of the California border. It bills itself as "one of the world's foremost lumbering centers and its dock area hums day and night with ships loading wood chips for Japan. Otherwise, it is a collection of modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?at 8 a.m., whiteness blankets the town?Marshfield High commands a sweeping...
...High is a product of the prosperous, progressive '60s. Built in 1968 on 80 acres of farm land across the Iowa River from the downtown area, the three-story brick and stone building was designed with the latest educational theories in mind. The $4.5 million school was provided with a 2,000-spectator gym, a little theater, a music wing and a large central commons area for student socializing...