Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carol R. Goldberg, chief executive of the Stop and Shop supermarket chain and the seminar's patron, said yesterday that the city could use parks to improve citizens' lives by giving them more green space...
Goldberg said seminar members hoped the city would "develop strategies for using green space to intervene in the poverty cycle...
...Open space "lift the human spirit and provide a feeling of social wellbeing," said seminar participant Hubie Jones, Dean of the School of Social Work at Boston University. "This report might be the most important gift ever given to the city," he added...
...officials finally managed to outwit McVey in early 1982, when he tried to smuggle a Memorex computer out of California on a private plane. When the plane stopped in Houston, Customs inspectors replaced the computer with a load of sand. The sand was duly shipped to the Institute of Space Research in Moscow. McVey's capture last summer foiled his latest scheme: a plan to steal the designs for a new supercomputer being developed by the Saxpy Computer Corp. in Silicon Valley. The computer can be used to track satellites and missiles...
...activists are especially upset about a new wave of "interactive" shows, like Mattel's Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. The show, a live-action space adventure, enables children to play along at certain points by shooting at villains on-screen with a special Power Jet weapon (cost: $30 to $40). An electronic signal responds to each "hit" and tots up the . player's score. Charren argues that by encouraging children to buy an expensive toy to participate, such shows unfairly divide the young audience into "the haves and the have-nots...