Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Daniel and Monika Crotta decided to spice up their San Diego pizza business in 1983, they settled on a police motif. They decorated the store to look like a precinct house and called it the New York Pizza Department, or NYPD, since Monika got her recipes from an uncle in Manhattan. For orders to go, the Crottas hit on the notion of delivering in two white "squad cars." Daniel cleared the idea with the San Diego police. Says he: "They didn't endorse us, but they didn't discourage...
From the beginning, Tinker made the equally enticing promise that NBC would give the audience time to find good new shows. That patience was frequently tested in Tinker's first two years. Before it won eight Emmys in September 1981, Hill Street regularly dwelled in the lowest-rating's precinct. During the fall of 1982, Cheers was dead last, and Co-Producer Les Charles wondered % if "maybe we should call NBC and tell them it'll get better. Instead we got calls from Brandon saying, 'Don't worry. We'll give it time.' " Soon after Family Ties made its debut...
...while the rest of Massachusetts--and for that matter the nation--veered to the right and voted overwhelmingly in support of Ronald Reagan, Cambridge went in the opposite direction: more than 78 percent of voting-age Cantabs cast a ballot for the liberal Mondale/Ferraro ticket. In fact, every single precinct in Cambridge voted in favor of the Democratic underdogs...
Here we were, two scared, wimpy Harvard students, thrust into the the real world at its worst. Roxbury: the toughest precinct in the state, a place where shootings, stabbings, thievery, fights and druggies are all too commonplace...
From his bucolic precinct, Conable will cheer Reagan on, though he has some deep differences with the President. He believes that Reagan has the will to put ideas into action. "No longer do people say the presidency does not work," he declares. "One man can make a difference." Ditto Barber Conable for 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives...