Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monrose, a woman who has lived in Cambridge for 15 years, identified "development and making sure that candidates are watching out for our neighborhood in Central Square" as her chief concerns...
...true of the SATs. In the suburbs, the richer section of society can learn new SAT words in their everyday life just by picking up a newspaper at home or by hearing their parents speak, while the poorer city kids have to worry about crimes and drugs in their neighborhood. Just by growing up in a better learning environment, most whites and Asians will be more prepared to take the SAT than blacks and Hispanics. In addition, it is not surprising to see that it is mostly whites and Asians that can afford preparatory courses for the college admission tests...
...usually just vote for the names I recognize," Gregory said, adding that his parents keep him informed about the political situation in his own neighborhood while he's at college...
...elections] usually work is councillors are known in the neighborhood they live in and that's where the people who vote for them end up coming from," he said...
...phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even as I was writing this, a circular arrived to inform me that, as of next February, my tiny rural neighborhood will get 17 new postal codes, all seven digits long...