Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second straight week, the council failed to approve a recommendation from City Solicitor Russell B. Higley that would allow the city to sell Riverside Rd. to Stop and Shop for $1 million. Instead, the council voted to table the matter and let City Manager Robert W. Healy negotiate further with the chain...
...plan includes "family school" programssuch as daycare for children three months to twoyears old, preschool classes for three and fouryear olds, job training for parents and courses inEnglish as a second language for adults...
...battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack at the problem...
...that devastated St. Croix last week, blowing houses into splinters, closing down the hospital, shutting off water and electricity, leaving residents and tourists in a state of panic. But the island's second wave of destruction was the work of man. When the skies cleared, locals armed with rifles, guns and machetes plundered the ravaged streets of Christiansted and Frederiksted, helping themselves not just to necessities like food and water but also to TV sets, liquor and clothing. As days passed and no outside help came, the looting spread. Thieves browsed through merchandise, trying on sneakers to get the right...
Raymond Chandler influenced the American detective novel so strongly that even his imitators have imitators. Among the best of the second-generation models is Robert B. Parker, 57, whose private investigator, Spenser, shares Philip Marlowe's gruff chivalry and, like Chandler's "Galahad of the gutter," bears the surname of an Elizabethan literary figure...