Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lebanese, the Israeli attack aroused not only fury but also frustration. The government in neighboring Syria adamantly backs the fedayeen movement but has the muscle to keep the guerrillas within its borders on a tight leash. Lebanon, on the other hand, has never been able to control the thousands of armed commandos who live within Israel's most vulnerable and militarily impotent neighbor. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and other fedayeen officials have their headquarters in Beirut. Moreover, the fedayeen military equipment is probably more modern than that of Lebanon's 16,000 man, U.S.-supplied army. After last week...
...lending risks lower. Abetting this migration is a decades-old practice called "redlining," by which lending institutions map older city districts off limits for loans, mortgages and insurance. Would-be property buyers in redlined territory are denied loans regardless of their income or credit rating, and older city neighbor hoods quickly turn into newer slums...
...past ten weeks, the tiny Wisconsin community of Hortonville (pop. 1,524) has been the scene of a bitterly divisive dispute between 84 district teachers and the school board that has turned neighbor against neighbor, caused dozens of arrests, and touched off a wave of vandalism. Windows in the strike headquarters have been smashed. Striking teachers, their replacements and board members have been victims of threatening phone calls and tire slashings, and their homes sprayed with paint. The school is kept locked while classes are in session, and parents patrol the halls and guard the entrances...
...good thing about a Chautauqua is that you can understand it as well as your neighbor and share it with him; that is Pirsig achievement. In the only decent sense of the word, he has class...
...built with those reflecting windows, it looked pretty vibrant and exciting." Rick Heym, president of Enviro-Design Group in Cambridge, also said that the bulding was deceptive on paper. "It looked like it would be inappropriate for the neighborhood. It gave the impression that it would be a bad neighbor, but it really is an excellent one, because it looks like it isn't there," Heym said...