Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dagwood Bumstead types, the old-fashioned manual lawn mower was a suburban symbol of dread. Among modern-day gentry who want to get a little exercise and avoid fouling the neighborhood with noise and exhaust pollution, however, the motorless mower is making a quiet comeback. Sales of reel mowers by the American Lawn Mower Co. of Shelbyville, Ind., reached 100,000 last year, a 47% increase over 1986. Average price: less than $100, in contrast to $250 or more for motorized models...
...grew up on my food." His delivery boy, Mookie (Lee), doles out advice while dodging duties to his girlfriend and their child. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes up in a puff of black rage...
...zoning ordinance, which was presented to the City Council in the form of a petition signed by neighborhood residents, was passed on June 5, despite Harvard's objections. At that time, attorneys for the University sent a letter to the city indicating that Harvard would take legal action if the site were rezoned...
...worth checking out if the other stores don't please you, but there is no real reason to go to Barillari, unless you're in the neighborhood. The other stores have everything this one offers, and they are all closer...
Local authorities are having no problem recruiting thousands of neighborhood informants and auxiliary police to revive the once pervasive system of spying. Last Monday evening, when an ABC news crew went into a private home to film a family watching Chinese television reports, a neighbor notified the local police. Within minutes, security officials rounded up the journalists and detained them for two hours. The next day the crew's correspondent and producer left Shanghai after warnings that covering the news without permission was "dangerous...