Word: hub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston viewers may respond in the same way. But the Hub may never get the chance to protest the firing of a dependable local newscaster on channel 7. It's hard even to remember the last...
...after what some scholars regard as the most important dig in New World archaeology, this hub of Aztec civilization has again become the subject of intense interest. Excavating in the very heart of bustling Mexico City, archaeologists have succeeded not only in unearthing the battered remains of the Great Temple but also in recovering some 6,000 objects: statues, wall carvings, pottery and jewelry as well as human and animal sacrificial remains. Some 100 choice examples from the dig have gone on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York until...
...convention's featured speakers, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, told the delegates the city's poor race relations record is improving, adding that in NAACP convention could not have been held in the Hub five years...
Some where in the Hub, there is a highly respected corporate executive who fills his days sitting in on confidential board meetings and making important business decisions. After work--he most surely stays at he office until at least 6 p.m. --he maintains his guise, closing deals with clients over dinner...
...Mayor White of today is hardly the same man who governed the Hub in the late '60s and early '70s. That mayor twice defeated prominent busing opponent Louise Day Hicks, ran for governor in 1970 with Michael Dukakis as his running mate, was nearly handed the vice presidential spot on George McGovern's ticket in 1972 and went way out on a limb during the 1975 busing crisis trying to persuade irate Bostonians to accept the court ordered integration plan Today's Mayor White, on the other hand, isn't really more conservative--he's still supporting Dukakis in this...