Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away with charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came the answer...
...Sandinista operation was the regime's first concerted military effort to neutralize the Miskito minority, which makes up some 4% of Nicaragua's population of 2.7 million and occupies most of the country's vulnerable northeast region. The Sandinistas fear that the porous Honduras border, and the 336-mile Caribbean coastline, might eventually be used as a staging area for an invasion led by anti-Sandinista units. The forcible resettlement of the Miskitos was designed to prevent them from providing food, shelter and intelligence to the anti-Sandinistas. Whatever the reason, the Sandinista action against the Indian...
While the President succeeded in grabbing headlines, the drumfire of criticism did not abate. The United States Conference of Mayors warned that the 1983 budget would "seriously undermine the economic and social health of cities." The criticism from Governors was also widespread, but it was sharpest in the Northeast, where populous states already face severe budget problems. New Jersey's Republican Governor Thomas Kean, in office barely a month, charged that Reagan's budget "will have a severe human impact." Anticipating a $130 million state deficit even if there were no new Reagan slashes, Kean said New Jersey...
...economic problems. Bradley and Wirth, for example, are in the forefront of the move toward targeted tax cuts--as opposed to President Reagan's across-the-board reduction, which they view as inflationary and fiscally irresponsible. Selective cuts, they argue convincingly, will benefit ailing industrial cities in the Northeast and Midwest by encouraging the development of software, communications, and energy businesses...
...hide under. Late arrivals mostly B.C. fans, the real ways late to the Beanpot would glance at the end of the first period, and 7-1 in the middle of the second, and pity poor Harvard for having as Beanpot sported by a first-round encounter with powerful Northeast...