Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minnie can't explain why her children have gone wrong. She feels powerless to prevent Kemya from going out with drug dealers or the boys from sidewalk hustling. For her, unlike her children, the streets are foreign territory. "I think we lost control at some point," she says, as though trying to recall something in the distant past. "I don't exactly know when, but somehow we lost control over the kids...
...Orville Walls, a Philadelphia veterinarian. "The owners think, 'I may be low man on the economic totem pole, but I have the meanest, toughest dog on the street.' " Owning a pit bull, says Robert Armstrong, Houston's chief animal controller, "is a warning to others to stay off the sidewalk." Randall Lockwood of the Humane Society notes that the animals have become increasingly popular as dog fighting has moved from rural areas into cities. They appeal "to the disfranchised and the unemployed. The owners themselves are often violent." Tufts' Loew sees the bonding of owner and dog as akin...
...Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing to another son, David, a trencherman about the size of a post office...
About here Walter Barbknecht, seeing that a visitor's head was spinning, offered a tour of town. "Orville's real proud of this sidewalk," the tour began, then abruptly turned conspiratorially candid. "The restaurant inspector is giving us a bad time. They want us to make the doors to the restrooms bigger, for the handicapped. And shields over the lights. Tiddly things. They don't want fluorescent bulbs to break over the food. We did our own plumbing and wiring, just volunteers. We have a good plumber, but he doesn't have a license, so they're hacking on that...
...state has launched its own ad rebuttal. One 30-second protax television spot opens with a scene of a crowded sidewalk, while a voice-over intones that "growth is choking Florida. Too many people. Not enough water, roads, schools." The ad concludes that "special interests will have to pay their fair share...