Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book Reagan's Legacy, Stanley Greenberg, head of the Analysis Group, was quoted as saying, "The race question has been deeply assimilated, as it defines attitudes toward their neighborhood, Detroit, the Democratic Party, Democratic themes and the government. These Democratic defectors believe government has personally intevened to block their opportunities. Appeals to fairness, opportunity, etc. are now defined in racial terms that have been stripped of any progressive content...
Talk about rip-offs. Even the most hardened residents of Detroit's crime- ridden East Side have been stunned by the latest target of some enterprising robbers: aluminum siding. The off-the-wall trend began last year, when siding suddenly began disappearing from abandoned houses around the neighborhood. More recently, aluminum rustlers, emboldened by the local cops' relaxed attitude toward the thefts, have taken to prying off the siding from the garages of occupied homes. Even lawn chairs are no longer safe...
...kids together, we all only really listened to reggae. I hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes in our shoes...
...local realtor, though not an expert on this type of property, says, "I think it's pretty difficult to tear down a building." The realtor said both the historical commission and the neighborhood would probably act to prevent such a demolition...
When community leaders in Roxbury's Mission Hill area decided to do something about the neighborhood's high infant mortality rate, they consulted experts at Harvard's School of Public Health...