Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News of Largey's death touched off a wave of riots in Roosevelt Towers, the East Cambridge housing project where he lived, as angry youths protested what they believed to be a murder of one of their...
...told a reporter we were all at fault: The Police Department that didn't teach its officers the job for which they were hired. The Housing Authority that ran the Towers as a slum. The School Department that made Towers and other project kids feel unwanted. And the city manager, Council, School Committee, and mayor who had suspected all that and had not managed to change...
...notoriously hard to define and harder to measure, sociologists disagree about just how much of it has disappeared. But they do agree that people feel more harried by their life-styles. "People's schedules are more ambitious," says John Robinson, who heads up the Americans' Use of Time project at the University of Maryland. "There just isn't enough time to fit in all the things one feels have to be done...
...Aykroyd, SNL producer Lorne Michaels and brother Jim Belushi. Reluctance to alienate Ovitz and his clients, claim the film's producers, is what frightened most of Hollywood away. "In this town," says co-producer Edward Feldman (Save the Tiger, Witness), "the word was put out that this was a project not to be touched...
...very excited about the new program," said O'Brien. "The program has been well received throughout the community, especially by the impoverished linguistic minority." Both Clark and Dr. Lou Laz, who works with Clark on the project, are fluent in Spanish, and Laz speaks Portuguese, according to a Cambridge Hospital news release...