Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the plan approved by the city Executive Office of Human Services, the new shelter--to be located on Concord Ave.--would have twenty beds and would supplement the two existing shelters in Cambridge until a permanent site can be found, organizers said...
Although organizers said they are optimistic that the armory plan will work, they said that more must be done to help the homeless, since the armory would only be a temporary shelter site...
...financially depressed New Orleans, it was an embarrassment of riches. First the city was notified by the Republican National Committee that it had been selected as the site of the 1988 G.O.P. Convention, a three-day bonanza that should generate $50 million in business. Then Democratic Chairman Paul Kirk said his committee (which had just sampled the Cajun cuisine and first- class hotels) might also choose the City That Care Forgot as its party's convention site...
Before Australia was Australia it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure and unimaginable place that was, literally, the end of the world. And before it became a nation, this orphan continent on which European history had left no mark at all became the site of a bizarre and dreadful social experiment. For almost a hundred years, beginning in 1788, it served as a human trash heap where England exiled some 160,000 members of its criminal class...
...THAT HARVARD has offered on land occupied by the St. Paul's parish rectory and parking lot at the corner of Mount Auburn and DeWolfe Streets includes plans to build some subsidized housing on the site. The University's main priority remains more housing for its own affiliates. But its willingness to provide some low-income housing--in the Cambridge market it has helped to inflate--speaks for the efforts of the neighborhood and Harvard groups that have pressured the University on its development plans in recent years...