Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council heard testimony from Healy, city officials and neighborhood activists, all of whom supported a plan to place a teen center in a gymnasium belonging to St. Mary's Parish. Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr. said the parish created the first teen recreational center in the country...
...Riekes are hoping to use the telescope and the spectrograph to penetrate the dust obscuring what they believe is a nursery of new stars. Explains Marcia Rieke: "This galaxy has made a whole lot of new stars, and very recently." Furthermore, she notes, "this guy is in the neighborhood, close by, at 10 million light-years." The edge of the universe is, by some estimates, 15 billion light-years out there, and the M.M.T. can cover four-fifths of the distance...
...sudden, the rattiness is being excised. And in the process, several other qualities seem in danger of disappearing too: the reasonable scale, the special romance and the sense of celebration. On the pretext of rescuing Times Square, much of what makes the neighborhood special is about to be denuded, the scores of small, old, higgledy-piggledy buildings replaced by a dozen shiny towers. Two weeks ago, the state gave approval to leases for four big, bulky skyscrapers designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, part of a $2.6 billion plan to redevelop 42nd Street. A few blocks away...
...They have ruined this housing," said John Mason, the lawyer for the Simplex Steering Committee, a neighborhood group that has been fighting MIT's development plans for almost 15 years...
...Dukakis after Iowa, New Hampshire fits Robert Frost's definition of home as "the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." The mood and tenor of his campaign changed as soon as he arrived, particularly in the Manchester neighborhood where his Greek-immigrant father Panos first settled in 1912. Dukakis appeared able to relax now that he no longer had to purport to be fascinated with Iowa farm problems or subdue his natural 78- r.p.m. speech rhythms. While he did not fully abandon his innate caution, he did seem more adept at sniping...