Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developed a reputation that would give heartburn to a Chamber of Commerce. First there was the 1967 Summer of Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which Jim Jones had moved his cult followers from a "people's temple" in the center of San Francisco...
...occurred at the same time voters were putting restrictions on further commercial growth, including last month's referendum rejecting plans for a new downtown baseball stadium. "The city is not antibusiness," says the mayor- elect, whose platform attempts to hew to a fine line between the concerns of his neighborhood constituents and the power brokers of old San Francisco. "The people just want to plan the growth...
Cambridge's only Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) will sell off about half of the space it has occupied for the past 92 years next month and plans to redevelop the remainder in an attempt to provide better subsidized housing and recreational facilities for the Central Square neighborhood...
...conjures up carefree images of roller skaters, street performers and muscle-bound beachcombers. Now Venice is coping with an unwanted new reputation: as a sunny campground for 2,000 homeless people. A tent city on the beach has spurred fears that Venice will become an oceanside skid row. A neighborhood group has been organized to protest a planned soup kitchen and shelter in the Rose Avenue residential area; some claim that an increase in petty crime is driving away both tourists and businesses...
...would probably prefer to move out of Harvard's neighborhood...