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...Perhaps then we should pay more heed to the words of the 4000 unemployed who picketed the Brighton conference than to Thatcher's cutesy, Reagan-like pun, "The lady's not for turning." Once you hold your breath and take in your belt for the ride down the monetarist highway, there's no turning, it seems, not even...
Charlotte Street once was at the heart of a thriving working class neighborhood densely packed with five-story walk-up apartments. Today, only two homes remain. Beginning in the 1950s, the draw to the suburban dream and federal highway construction and low-interest home mortgages for the middle-class encouraged the upwardly mobile residents of Charlotte Street to move...
...eyesore and health menace because of its exposed electrical wiring, plugged storm drains, filthy toilets and tainted food. By sunset, the last tent was down, and the remaining 750 residents had been taken away by bus. Left behind were a dozen Spanish names spray-painted on the thick concrete highway supports...
...controversy over the 'Inner Belt', a highway designed to pass through several poorer neighborhoods of Cambridge, had a major politicizing effect," she said. "People were forced to do an about-face, to realize that these social engineering programs could have adverse effects," she said...
...night is balmy. The highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...