Word: ma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge, MA...
Andrew L. St. Pierre '03, a resident of Danvers, MA., and of Wigglesworth Hall, along with at least two other first-years, was seen attempting to steal license plates off cars along Linden Streets, officials said...
MacDonald gives new life to this old American story of poor-white pride and prejudice. He also has a knack for quickly grabbing and holding a reader's attention. How's this for an opening line? "I was back in Southie, 'the best place in the world,' as Ma used to say before the kids died...
...Ma" is Helen Murphy-MacDonald-King, a pub singer and feisty accordionist who gave birth to 11 children fathered by various husbands and boyfriends. In her signature miniskirts, fishnet stockings and spiked heels, Ma is an unmistakable Southie presence...
Baby wants to grow up. Bell Atlantic, the northeastern offspring of the 1984 breakup of AT&T, has formally applied to the FCC for permission to take on its old Ma and offer long-distance service to its New York customers. The rationale dates back to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which promised the Baby Bells their shot at one-stop telecom shopping - local, Internet and long-distance service all on one bill from one company - once long-distance carriers like AT&T had had their shot at breaking the Baby Bells' hold on local markets. Bell Atlantic claims that...