Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agents for Cambridge's local painters union met with Harvard officials last week and agreed to temporarily end a three-week long picket of several campus buildings in protest of the practices of University-hired contractors, according to an agent for the union...
...five years, 1369 Jazz Club has been home to some of the top local and national jazz artists and a loyal and knowledgeable crowd. A court decision means that the club will be leaving its spot later this month and the owners are hoping to find a new location nearby. But whatever the outcome of search for a new spot, the 1369 Jazz Club will be remembered if members of Boston's Cine Research have their...
While Hoffman said that he hoped the club would reopen by the middle of November, he said that it was getting more difficult for local music clubs to move around Cambridge because of zoning restrictions...
...wealthy, largely white portion of the country whose safety is threatened by drugs and drug-related crime. But such distinctions are usuallly glossed over when the drug problem is put up for discussion. Just the other day, two prominent experts on the drug epidemic appeared on a local television show and concurred that drug use was not a political problem, but rather a "people problem...
Enthusiasm for skywalks has not been ubiquitous. In the 1970s, when corporate headquarters and shoppers were abandoning its downtown, Hartford came very close to erecting a skywalk system as a way, its boosters hoped, to revitalize the city's downtown. Local opposition, on both fiscal and philosophical grounds, prevented all but a few skywalks from being built. Meanwhile, downtown Hartford has undergone a renaissance on its own. A 1982 / Seattle ordinance prohibits any skybridge that blocks a vista or reduces street traffic -- in effect, all skywalks...