Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it would be in the neighborhood of half a million a dollars," Duehay speculated...
...emerged as the region's strongest force for moderation. Though he was frequently betrayed by friend and foe alike, even targeted for assassination, he responded with magnanimity. He molded a modern, cohesive state from a collection of Bedouin tribes and Palestinian refugees, and won something rare in his nasty neighborhood: a lifelong reputation as a man of tolerance...
Less than 24 hours before the whirring chain saws and chippers descended upon Kathleen Winebrenner's street in the leafy Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, the desperate homeowner was buttonholing government officials, pleading for clemency. Her 30-year-old Norway maple did not deserve to die, she insisted. "I thought this can't be. Where's the Pope when you need him?" she said, staring forlornly at the sprawling branches framing her living-room window for the last time. "It had to be a mistake since it wasn't on the original list...
...late, however, for Chicagoans surveying the devastation outside their front doors. Maria Conde, 33, and her brother Baltasar, 30, took a melancholy stroll through the neighborhood with their video camera the day before the saws arrived, eager to preserve on tape the neighborhood they have known for 25 years. "It will be a part of history," said Maria. "This is one way we can participate." In October, soon after residents learned of the planned annihilation, Lutheran pastor Karen Parsons hosted an art day at her church, which sits in the heart of the infested area. About 70 adults and children...
...testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...