Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supporters of a five-year plan to revamp Central Square say it will turn a gritty stretch of Mass. Ave into an attractive shopping area--but several local residents testified Monday night that the plan could change their neighborhood for the worse...
...Cambridge City Council put off voting Monday night on the Central Square Action Plan after hearing testimony from its authors. Compiled by a team of city officials and neighborhood representatives, the project is meant to make the square more attractive to shoppers by controlling the types of businesses that settle there, making the streets cleaner and safer, and creating more mixed-income housing...
...What we are trying to do is to keep Central Square as a basic neighborhood community and shopping center which will serve the surrounding neighborhoods," Duehay said...
Spotting a promising new line of business, hospital corporations opened so- called satellite clinics, many in residential areas. The neighborhood centers found a clientele among workers who were impressed by the convenience and availability of treatment. Says Bernard Tresnowski, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield: "The incentives for outpatient treatment were so strong that people took advantage of them...
...curfew, which affected refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered...