Word: precinct
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...would be very attractive housing; two, it would be very close to the existing undergraduate housing complex; and three, it would reinforce the idea that Allston was going to be a precinct with as much appeal as Cambridge over time...
...might expect of a Dean or a Maitland. He chose Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, a school known for its hands-on, community-based approach to teaching medicine. It was at Einstein that Dean met Judith Steinberg, a studious Princeton grad from Roslyn, N.Y., a precinct of Long Island somewhat less tony than the ones Dean knew well. After a long courtship, he and Steinberg were married by a judge at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Manhattan on a winter night...
According to one woman, there is an official in the 15th police precinct with a vendetta against Tacony and all its residents. “Whenever something bad happens, the police say it’s in Tacony. When something good happens, they call it Mayfair...
...evidence themselves, the know-it-alls from headquarters invade again, certain that the Wangan police just aren't up to the job. Though slicker than the first movie, the seriocomic tone remains, and the crime-related plot lines are still secondary to the internal dynamics of an underappreciated police precinct and its attempts to combat and correct the misguided larger bureaucracy...
...acknowledges that his current job is an even tougher undertaking. "Someone driving down the street, pulling out a gun and doing a drive-by shooting is one thing," he notes. "Here, somebody rolls down their back window, pulls out an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] and blows up the entire precinct. It's a slightly different ball game...