Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest challenge facing University officials and attorneys this fall is the appeal of the DEQE decision prohibiting the generators. In the Oct. 16 appeal hearing, Hearing Officer Ellyn Weiss will review the DEQE decision and other evidence presented by Harvard, the DEQE, and neighborhood groups opposed to the power plant. The selection of Weiss--a former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts who now has a private practice in Washington, D.C.--was in itself something of a victory for Harvard. University attorneys claimed earlier this year that the original hearing officer, Assistant State Atty. Gen. Charles Corkin, Jr., was biased against...
...York has bounced back. So what? One week I read where New Yorkers have to clean up after their dogs, and the next week they're all wearing I LOVE NEW YORK T shirts. I wish your editors would quit scheduling stories about their neighborhood. How many readers really care about the Big Apple anyway...
...lives alone with her sheep dog in a working-class district of Philadelphia, had bought a car for a friend. Somebody else heard that she had paid for several trips to Puerto Rico for other friends. None of this was true, police said later, but people in the neighborhood began estimating how much money she might have stashed away in her modest row house. Someone guessed $35,000. Someone guessed more. There was even talk of a hoard of $45 million. None of this was true either-her only income is her monthly $247 Social Security check, and her only...
...dogs. Finally, the suspect tried to blow Morgan up. Returning to Morgan's house late one night in mid-August bearing 75 sticks of dynamite, the suspect was scared off by barking dogs and fled, leaving the bomb to explode in the driveway. The blast rocked the neighborhood, shattering windows in nearby houses, but Morgan escaped unharmed. Now in hiding, Morgan says he will still testify...
...swiftness of the vote also caught the Vatican bureaucracy by surprise. Some of the Swiss Guards had to be rounded up from neighborhood cafes, and they finally mustered for an honor march across the square during John Paul's appearance on the balcony, but not?as is customary?before it. Vatican officials on the list of those who make the act of obedience to the Pope after the appearance were scattered, some at the beach. Such notables as Substitute Secretary of State Giuseppe Caprio scurried back just in time for Felici's announcement. They were not summoned into the Sistine...