Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flynn said the department raised the fine to discourage motorists--particularly Harvard staff, faculty and students--from leaving their cars in Cambridge street spaces for extended hours...
Although Flynn said that the new policy is not directed specifically at members of the Harvard community, he said that shoppers and business people are being deprived of parking because of the lack of street spaces...
Flynn suggested that students and faculty urge the University to provide more off-street parking if they find the number of Cambridge spaces inadequate...
When they arrive in Asia, U.S. cigarette producers often try to light up the female and teenage market, a strategy that particularly angers health experts. In Taiwan street peddlers hired by U.S. firms hand out free cigarette samples at discos. Marketers for R.J. Reynolds last year planned to charge five empty packets of its Winston cigarettes as admission to a rock concert in Taiwan but dropped the idea in the face of a public outcry...
...Love your car!" The young woman, who is quite pretty, has skipped across the main street of my New Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists...