Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellery's repeated violations of state and municipal regulations, as well as the neighborhood grievances, also justify a revocation of Ellery's license, a measure the DPU originally recommended. Regardless of whether the DPU revokes the license, Harvard certainly should not support the garage by further use of its services...
...When I telephoned to check about a vacant apartment in another neighborhood, the landlord hung up on me as soon as he heard that I was Turkish and had three children." The grim living conditions in the ghettos foster not only broken homes but also a climate of violence-murders, knifings and muggings...
...city, spoke almost no English, and hardly read or wrote, yet they sold everything and went to New York City for eleven months. There, they lived ten blocks from where I grew up. While I was in my junior year in high school, the Oritizes were in my neighborhood in West Side Manhattan asking grocers to take the lettuce and grapes off their shelves...
...kind of work I was involved in in Los Angeles is also being carried on here in Boston by the full-time staff people here. There is a Cambridge Neighborhood Support Organization and a Harvard support group will be forming as part of that organization. Last spring here we had a used book and record sale, we showed "Union Maids" and "The Grapes of Wrath" and sponsored a Cinco de Mayo celebration with La Raza. This year the struggle continues; for example we have brought and may again need to bring pressure on Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. which owns...
During the late '50s Koch joined the anti-Tammany reform movement in his new neighborhood, Greenwich Village. After two years on the city council, Koch was elected to Congress in 1968. In the House, Representative Koch has been a down-the-line liberal and-despite his pugnacious stance in the mayoral campaign-an excellent conciliator. Indeed, Koch was elected secretary of New York's 39-member House congressional delegation, consisting of several factions in both parties. Says a colleague: "He doesn't let ideology interfere with getting things done. He adjusts for windage...