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Council members said that the project would appeal to a regional and metropolitan patronage, changing the focus of Porter Square businesses away from a more neighborhood oriented appeal. According to one resident, the influx of visitors to the area would make Porter Square a "jungle of cars and people...
...Wasserman] is creating a major regional or metropolitan shopping center," said Duehay...
...parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic sense of humor have marketed alternative signs. Among the new offerings: nobody on board, child carries no cash and EX-WIFE IN TRUNK...
...bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some of whom are still suspicious of the 55-year-old leader. Television monitors at the press center for foreign journalists repeatedly flashed anti-U.S. "news headlines." Read one: U.S. CHILDREN...
Johnston, the only woman Democrat in the race thus far, said that she has developed negotiating skills during her 23 years as an organizer and active member of the Democratic Party. She has served as executive director of Somerville's Metropolitan Area Planning Council and as a 1984 Democratic Party convention delegate for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo...