Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent control is the best solution that Cambridge has found to the changing economic times. And to a large extent, rent control has proven effective. Cambridge has kept its diversity. Cambridge is not just another suburb of Boston...
...Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
During the 1906 tremor, the plates on either side of the San Andreas lurched past each other by as much as 20 ft. Over time, such jumps add up. "In 30 million years," Berkeley seismologist Bruce Bolt says, "Los Angeles will become a new suburb of San Francisco...
This mail, however, was not intended for prompt delivery to any bank. An alert police officer in the suburb of Carrollton spotted one such sign at a local bank, and after a search, another was found. Officers patiently staked out one of the sites. There they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal $10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would charge him with theft of the mailboxes...
...ranks of South Africa's antiapartheid struggle, Walter Sisulu is second only to his fellow prisoner and best friend, Nelson Mandela. A quarter- century ago, Sisulu and several other underground leaders of the African National Congress were captured on a farm in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia. Along with Mandela, they were sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted in the Rivonia trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government...