Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been some concern, in the department as well as among some residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, about the plant's expected levels of emission of nitrogen oxides...
...Washington might be all that's needed to interest some companies. And what a heartwarming thing it would be if industrial and housing development took place simultaneously." Whatever the merits of Robbins' ideas, the Administration plans to take a much less costly approach. Instead of rebuilding the neighborhood with massive federal aid, Watson is stressing ways to induce private firms to locate in the South Bronx, thus creating jobs for residents and enabling a measure of prosperity to trickle down to the neighborhood's devastated streets...
...cities, whites seem edgy and ill-tempered. To a group of neighbors who were gossiping about the rise in thefts and the burglarizing of homes, a white housewife in an affluent suburb of Johannesburg complained: "They [the blacks] are gathering all the time in small groups around the neighborhood. A few years ago, the police would have stopped them or picked them up. Now they're just everywhere. I never even walk any more." Many feel plagued by uncertainty. "People just don't make plans," says Nadine Gordimer. "They can't make up their minds, whether it's over buying...
...cigarettes. (Inmates must buy their own coffee and cigarettes but usually insist on sharing their meager supplies.) Small groups form, or, if the youth has visited before, he may move off into a cubicle with an inmate who has befriended him--often because they are from the same neighborhood--and in the course of a few weekly visits a confidence often develops between them. The inmate then becomes the youth's official counselor and files monthly reports to probation officers. There are, of course, some kids unable to establish a friendship with any inmate, but by and large even...
...been unsuccessful. Because the program is run entirely within the prison, spreading word of its existence proves difficult. Numerous neighborhood organizations, a few detention centers and one juvenile court judge from Attleboro refer kids to Walpole, but the overall public response is not particularly enthusiastic--either here or in other parts of the country where similar programs are underway. Parents generally don't think too highly of their kids going to prison, even if just for a few hours, and the criminal justice system has yet to accept the idea that prisoners can serve as constructive role models for youthful...