Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blessing, before telling the crowd that it was time to say "Enough is enough." After Bush left, Cooke was asked whether it would matter if the Governor had ever done drugs. "It would make a difference," said the boy, who knew about what drug use had done to his neighborhood. "That's sending a message that you can do drugs and get away with it." And that's exactly the message Bush says he is determined to avoid...
...visible to the naked eye, and when viewed through a large telescope it looks very much like any of the ordinary cosmic bodies in its celestial neighborhood. But this pinpoint of light is anything but ordinary. Spotted more than three years ago, it seemed at first to be a garden-variety star--but it wasn't. It might have turned out to be an unremarkable galaxy or quasar--but it didn't. Frustrated in their attempts to learn its nature, and even its distance from Earth, astronomers have begun to refer to the mystery object as, well, the "mystery object...
...getting feeble, and she wanted her freedom," Struzzieri says with a sigh. "Here I get all the attention I need." Miami developer Raul Munne, who built the place, is a Cuban immigrant. "Where I grew up," he jokes, "the elderly sat on the porch and fought with the neighborhood kids. It gave them incentive to get out of bed in the morning." But in the U.S., he says, "old folks are told, 'Don't open your door and go out at night. You might get mugged.' So, many of them have no one to talk to all day. They...
...beginning, it was neighborhood kids who pestered the celebs for autographs. However, says the neighbor, P and his friends and family "can now go to the community park and play baseball, and nobody bothers them." P told TIME, "I know some of the neighbors felt threatened at first, but I think people have eased up a lot since they've gotten to know...
...numbers were all big, and all bad, and if this wasn't the big one, it was close enough. The earthquake that hit western Turkey Tuesday morning at 3 a.m. local time weighed in at a heavy 7.8 on the Richter scale, a number that placed it in the neighborhood of the big (7.9 magnitude) San Francisco quake of 1906. More than 10,000 people are dead, a number that is still going...