Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kenny lies in his crib upstairs in her home, in a house she shares on a tree-lined street, where her heart prepared him room. This nursery is merry with orange walls and pictures and 27 watchful stuffed animals. "It's going to be hard to lose him," says Gertrude...
...Suzanne Firtko, an architectural historian in New York City who invented the Street Sheet, instructions that direct homeless people to the nearest soup kitchens and clothes banks. She persuaded Du Pont to donate waterproof, tear- resistant paper, and designed the sheets with easy-to-understand graphics so the disoriented and illiterate could use them. The entire operation that first year cost $1,800. "Projects like mine become very expensive when they're done by established agencies," she says. "It's very cheap when you're doing it at your kitchen table...
Started in 1985 with help from Kitty Dukakis, the program seeks to improve "public spaces," such as parks and recreational areas. Winthrop Park on JFK Street was one of the program's projects, Robin said...
...American industry is getting beaten in the world market by being slow to innovate. Surpluses that foreign countries channel into research and development are divied up by American companies as short-term profits. While foreign governments help develop new competitive advantages for their companies, our elected leaders allow Wall Street executives to squander time and money on corporate takeovers, which produce nothing...
Sputtering burning fuel, a large chunk of the fuselage struck a hill outside Lockerbie, then careened into a gas station and two rows of houses, gouging a 20-ft.-wide crater in a roadway. In the center of town, an aircraft engine lay embedded in the street. Sixty bodies were later recovered from a nearby golf course and taken to the town hall, which had been turned into a makeshift mortuary. One body was found on a back porch, another entangled in the branches of a tree. Three miles away, the plane's blue-and-white cockpit, containing the bodies...