Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example cited by proponents of this view is the uproar over the unionization drive going on now (see accompanying story). Another was the expansion of the Coop into downtown Boston two years ago, which some criticized as having nothing to do with students' needs. Coop officials then defended the move by pointing out that the new store was in the same building housing the downtown Boston Harvard Club and thus served an important Coop constituency, alumni. And recently, several officials said that sales there have helped balance less profitable parts of the Coop operation like textbooks--and thus--you guessed...
...were supposed to be part of the New World's promised land. The first American prisons would not merely punish inmates, but transform them from idlers and hooligans into good, industrious citizens. In 1790 a group of Philadelphia Quakers, brimming with revolutionary optimism, began the experiment in a renovated downtown jail. They were bent on "such degrees and modes of punishment . . . as may . . . become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness." No other country was so seduced for so long by that ambitious charter. The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when a monkish salvation...
Bernardin displayed an exactly opposite personal style during his decade as Archbishop of Cincinnati. He took daily walks downtown and often chatted with people around Fountain Square. Motorists waiting at red lights were were often often surprised to see the cleric also waiting patiently for the green behind the wheel of his 1981 Oldsmobile. Bernardin not only shunned the services of a chauffeur but also sold off the archbishop's mansion and moved into a three-room rectory apartment. He also wrote a regular column on church and social issues for the diocesan weekly, then published letters disputing...
...boosters can brag about more than old-shoe gentility: over the past decade a decrepit waterfront district has been intelligently transformed into a swank commercial and residential quarter whose centerpiece, the Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market showplace, draws natives and tourists by the millions. At the other end of downtown, $400 million is going into the big Copley Place development, which will include hotels, shops and convention facilities...
...city's public schools has dropped from 57% to 32%. Shrewd, mercurial Kevin White, 52, mayor for the past 15 years, loves to say that Boston is "the livable city." But one thoughtful police force veteran says, "The poor neighborhoods are being forgotten. What city hall sees is downtown, period...