Word: parked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of these memories, it is particularly disturbing to see the Kennedy name attached to the monstrosity at the corner of Soldiers Field Road and JFK street. Kennedy Park--it is still hard to utter--was once a vacant lot utilized by Harvard students from River to Quad for touch football games and other irreverent delinquencies. Some of the Kennedys may even have honed their paaass-caaatching talents there in their undergraduate days...
...space is occupied by an ugly, iron-fence-enclosed garden with little resemblance to a park. A road down the middle of it prevents the playing of anything resembling touch football. Future plans call for flowerbeds and the planting of trees. Hardly a gridiron...
...automaker recalled all such models with automatic transmissions sold in the U.S. from 1978 to 1986 -- a total of 250,000 cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which asked for the recall, has logged some 700 complaints that the Audi model suddenly accelerated when the driver shifted from park into reverse or drive. Some 230 injuries and five deaths are blamed on the problem...
...seriously hurt the company's U.S. image: sales in 1986 fell almost 20% from the previous year, to 59,797 autos. To prevent more accidents, Audi will equip the recalled cars with a shift-lock device, which forces the driver to press the brake pedal while shifting out of park. But many Audi owners maintain that the shift lock will not solve the problem. They want the company to buy back the accident-plagued autos or make major changes in the car's design...
...suspected sites in Cambridge include the Tobin School, an elementary school in North Cambridge; the Briston Arms, an apartment Building on Garden St.; 353 Huron Ave.; Fresh Pond Shopping Center; and Jefferson Park Apartments...