Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store as his regular customers. Some of the others were toothless, hungry folk in tattered clothes, who came from nearby shantytowns. By 2 p.m., a mob of more than 500 filled the parking lot. "I thought of closing the doors," Nicastro says. "But what good would it do? With all this glass...
...term on the City Council. His decision marked the end of an era in city politics. Since the early 1940s, the City Council has been divided between members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), an alliance of good-government reformers whom Vellucci disparages as the "goo-goos," and neighborhood-based politicians running as Independents...
...They're creating a new political class that knows how to administer but doesn't know the people in the neighborhood," the article written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author J. Anthony Lukas quoted White as saying. "They talk about competence. I'd rather not be called competent. I'd be offended by that word...
...swath of reform. An executive-search consultant in his more mundane life, the burly 59- year-old launched a second career as an anti-vice crusader a decade ago. He began by leading a covey of angry citizens in stamping out sex shops in his own blue-collar neighborhood of Aldine. He then expanded the drive, harnessing the muscle of police and prosecutors to close nude bars, massage parlors and so-called modeling studios across a stretch of Harris County. Today, thanks largely to Hurlbut, service roads and strips that once glittered with flagrant fronts for prostitution are clean. Hurlbut...
Pitkin said that in addition to the three drawings, he sent Harvard a letter containing other reccomendations for the site. At a meeting last week, the Neighborhood Association suggested that any building on the lot be set back on Harvard St. and provide a vehicular entrance on Mass...