Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more immediate and practical problem facing residents of the devastated black neighborhoods, which were bleak and run down even before the burning, was where to buy food, clothing and other daily necessities. Gangs of youths filling shopping carts with meats, canned foods, liquor and clothing had been commonplace. One black man had time to lash a dining-room set to his car roof-but was arrested when the engine would not start. There had long been a shortage of shops and services in the densely populated communities. Asked one young black: "Now where people gonna buy milk? Where they gonna...
...Fullwood. "You get hurt taking other people's stuff. It ain't like they put it in the street and say 'Come and get it.' The only thing they tore up was the black area. Now I got to go way across to Hialeah to shop...
...Mostly I just worked on cars during the trouble," says Oliver Andrew, 42, the owner of a small auto repair shop that stands on the eastern edge of Liberty City. Andrew says he did not feel that he was in great danger, at least not from fellow blacks, " 'cause I'm pretty well known in this neighborhood...
...biggest mistake seems to have been a friendship with a certain Thomas ("Red") Bryant, a Hell's Angel connected with the San Rafael auto body shop that according to the prosecution was a center of drug dealing, mayhem and murder. Bryant appears to be just the type the public thinks of when it thinks of Hell's Angels. In 1975 Bryant, Overstreet, Rick Robles and another Angel were accused in the beating and shooting death of a man called "Hippie Richard." Bryant's testimony helped convict Robles, and the rest went free. Bryant was considered so valuable...
...well as music and paintings, and his followers continue to hold regular meditation classes in Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year several hundred people attended his "Weekend Workshops in Self-Awareness" at the Science Center. Besides the health food store, Chinmoy group members will soon open a gift shop and a chocolate store. Even in a recession, the market for Eastern wisdom is strong...