Word: neighborhooding
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...harms his family in a civilized country, the police are called in to stop him. If a gang of thugs terrorizes a neighborhood, the police mount an operation to shut them down. However, if you are audacious enough to organize an even bigger gang of thugs, you can take over a whole country. Call yourself some sort of political party, and the world's media will obligingly use this title, thus helping legitimize your crimes, as most notoriously happened in Germany in the early 1930s. The governments and diplomats of the world will talk to you in the vain belief...
...very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003, he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it into parts and reassembled it in Dwarka, a fast-growing neighborhood of laundry-draped balconies, weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds of its normal length and is held in place by thick concrete pillars. A toilet block nestles underneath the tail. Inside, Gupta replaced...
...tutoring by the spring. “We really need help from people and we need to form a working relationship with people who are part of that Harvard community,” said Harry Mattison who is a member of both the Harvard-Allston Task Force and the neighborhood assembly. Andrew D. Fine ’09, one of the event’s organizers, reiterated Mattison’s concerns and said that as a student he is concerned about the impact of the expansion on the Allston community. “What we need...
...Most people are like, ‘What are you doing?’” she said. “I’m like, ‘Watching the news with my neighborhood burning down...
...smoke, but the fire still seemed far away. Upon awakening early the next morning and turning on the TV, he saw a newscaster reporting in front of a blaze - one that was less than half a mile from Blankenbeckler's house. "It had already burned through an entire neighborhood," he says. "That's when I thought, 'This is real...