Word: neighborhood
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City Councilor Saundra Graham has also supported rent control, but said last week that she has concentrated her efforts on working for down-zoning to stop "the encroaching high rise developments into neighborhoods" as well as on neighborhood rehabilitation programs. All the other Convention candidates also have strong records of community advocacy for rent control...
City Councilor Barbara Ackermann said last week she has concentrated on "the provision of health services and how they get paid for." She has tried to staff neighborhood clinics and pressed for state aid to Cambridge to fill the gaps in aid caused by Medicare cutbacks. She has also worked for affirmative action and for eradication of patronage jobs...
...challenging Independents, David J. Holway, Kennedy and Ragno, are hesitant about committing themselves to one side or the other. They say they are perplexed by the residency requirement and cautious about Superintendent Lannon. Holway and Kennedy have taken revitalization of neighborhood schools, especially the elementary school, as their personal causes. Kennedy and Ragno are first-time candidates while Holway finished a strong seventh two years ago and poses the greatest threat to the incumbents...
...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
with alien life forms?but, of course, no one will believe his story. The rest of Close Encounters' plot follows Roy and several other UFO sighters, including a mysterious international scientist (Truffaut) and a neighborhood woman (Dillon), as they overturn their lives in a mad attempt to arrange a rendezvous with the extraterrestrial visitors. When an earthling makes actual contact with aliens, that is "a close encounter of the third kind." (The first kind is sighting; the second, physical evidence...