Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Commuting Convicts. Despite its growing acceptance, the mixing of sexes in penal facilities is still considered experimental by correction authorities. Making life more pleasant for prisoners is only a side effect. The principal goal is to increase the chance that a prison sentence will reform a criminal rather than alienate him further from society. Explains Robert Vagt, deputy commissioner of community services in Massachusetts: "Our whole thrust is to get incarcerated people into a more normal environment. If it's not coed, then we're preparing them for a situation that they are not going to meet...
There are only a very few places around where you can eat a casual meal and enjoy a beer at the same time. Liquor licenses aren't worth the expense for most local restauranteurs but Buddy bought one and it makes his hamburger haven infinitely pleasant. He offers a good variety of brews at low cost--in the half-dollar neighborhood. Buddy also serves pretty tasty fries with his meals, which is normal for this kind of place, but his green salads are as good as any you can get in the area and they too are inexpensive...
LINEBACKER: The linebacking corps is the Crimson's forte with returnees George Newhouse at adjuster and Eric Kurzweil at one linebacking post. Newhouse was a pleasant surprise last year as a sophomore, leading the team in individual tackles with 51. Kurzweil, also a junior, had 61 individual and assisted tackles, second on the team. The other candidates for a starting job are junior lettermen Bill Collatos and John Keough, with letterman John Clarke the backup adjuster. Sophomore Tom Joyce is also in the picture as a possible starter. Linebacking: Good...
Areeda said yesterday that he had met with Ford recently and expects he "will find the association very pleasant...
...fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have become thriving restaurants, saved from the wrecker's ball by the diner's thrall. If few of them are likely to match Maxim's in cuisine, they are for the most part good, solid, pleasant places...