Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, in response to a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of private citizens, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was barred from the Allegheny County courthouse, where it had adorned the grand staircase of the building's rotunda. Also banned was an 18-ft. menorah displayed a block away at the front of the City-County building and sponsored by Chabad, the national organization of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. "The city...
...other morning a very anxious woman called an office in downtown Chicago with a request that any mother could understand. "I want to get him out of the house," she said. "He's a nice boy. A doctor. But he's 38, for goodness' sake." The answer, of course, is to find that nice doctor a bride. And that is exactly what Heather Stern is in business to do: she is a matchmaker, '80s style...
...departure sparked a high level of emotion. Some 200 Kovach supporters staged a mock funeral in downtown Atlanta, protesting the "death of a free press." Last week assistant managing editor Dudley Clendinen announced his resignation, complaining of the "continuing collision" between corporate and editorial factions. Management, he said, "sees readers as a market, as opposed to people who need information...
...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...
Patricia Y. Gomes, a homeless mother who moved into the transitional housing two weeks ago, said the apartment let her stay somewhere safe while she looked for a permanent home. She said she came to St. Paul's from a welfare hotel in downtown Boston...