Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue. Campaign for Choice, a coalition of pro-choice organizations, is pushing for voter education in order that voters understand that the pro-choice vote is "No." In addition, they are helping to sponsor a march to defeat the amendment on Saturday, October 18, starting at Copley Plaza...
Windows were blown out at several businesses. The sidewalk in front of the Tati store was covered with glass, debris and bleeding victims, many crying out for help. Police cleared a plaza, the Place du 18 Juin, and used it as a helicopter landing pad to evacuate those with the gravest injuries...
Seventy-six trombones and 110 cornets may be all very well, but they aren't a patch on 550 flutists. The instrumentalists, who were attending the 14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they included teachers from Kentucky, flute- makers from Connecticut and Suzuki-method pupils from California. As cameras focused in for the Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized...
...level given over to gourmet markets and eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month for a 30-footer. Local Mercedes Dealer Jim Slemons has doubled his business in four years and stocks eight acres...
...mothers came together in mutual sorrow and desperation. They became friends while spending long nights in the Plaza de Mayo hoping to be one of 10 people each day "permitted" to request information from the Interior Minstry about their missing children. They never got the news they sought. They still know nothing, other than what is obvious after nine years, that their children are dead (though even this they have trouble accepting). In a society in which the family is a sacred institution (opposing divorce is translated as "defending the family") and women still define themselves in terms of their...