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Beverly, Mass., July 17, 1985. Faced with mounting community opposition, a North Shore shelter for the homeless withdraws its offer to by an abandoned building in a dilapidated neighborhood. Shelter officials attribute the defeat to "misconceptions and and unfounded fears" on the part of residents about the introduction of a shelter into their residential area...
Amid his rhetoric about growth and innovation, Bush also emphasized importance of risk taking. He told Teradyne of his entree into the work off-shore oil drilling. Bush and backers sank millions of dollars invasive rig. which promptly vanish a hurricane...
...turned it into a triumph and placed its immigrants in the center of a national epic. It is still symbolized by that old copper-plated cliche, the Statue of Liberty, notwithstanding the condescension and the awful poetry of the famous Emma Lazarus lines ("the wretched refuse of your teeming shore...
...toward the country's myriad offshore islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor to own radios, and many of those who heard the warnings may have shrugged them...
...growing number of young, highly educated professionals flock to the northern shore of the Charles River, Cambridge's ever-changing demographics say much about the direction the city is taking...