Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body of Eileen Mabwa, 40, was found in the couple's Evanston, Ill. home at about 6 p.m. on October 30 by a neighbor who did not wish to be identified. The neighbor said she was responding to a call from Mabwa, who told her he had killed his wife and left her in the basement...
...Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what I do. I go in and case the stores and go back when they have sales." The McGivarens are backing two candidates in this month's council elections, hoping...
...flock to Shay's Wine Bar and Cafe, located across from the Galeria on JFK Street. Featuring soft pop music, cheese and crackers, and celery sticks as late-afternoon hors d'oevres, Shay's champagne cocktail and nachos crowd seems to materialize only after its immensely popular next-door-neighbor, the Boathouse Bar, has overflowed with customers...
...Like its neighbor across the river, Cambridge in the 1930s and 40s was saddled with blatant corruption in city government, financial disaster, patronage and corruption. Cambridge citizens, including many Harvard administrators such as then Dean of the Law School Roscoe Pound, decided to take action, establishing in 1945 a series of three reforms. The first two measures were aimed at cleaning up City Hall by revising the city charter and establishing a new electorial system. The third, the formation of a new citizen's coalition known as the CCA, was to ensure that it stayed clean...
...SALIENT issue here is that Harvard is selling. In recent years we have acted as a responsible neighbor by spending considerable funds rehabilitating the properties within the Rent Control Board's guidelines. But it has become increasingly clear that maintaining rental housing in buildings with three or fewer units on a scattered, patchwork basis is not efficient for the University. Such buildings are best tended by an on-site owner-occupant who would become a part of the neighborhood fabric...