Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents of Crehan's Dedham neighborhood elected the Winthrop House Government concentrator to the Dedham Town Meeting April 12, and now he will try to alleviate a primary concern of the Boston suburb...
From the beginning, since Little League in a suburb of Atlanta, Charlie Santos-Buch has been a winner. Sure, he's got a lot of natural athletic ability. He has enough ability to have garnered all-state honors on the parallel bars at a Darien, Conn., junior high and to have excelled in several sports through high school...
...government has not grown too big in cities like Cambridge. It makes little sense to hold every city in the Commonwealth to the same spending standard. As Sullivan points out, if Cambridge bordered a wealthy suburb, and each had $100 million worth of property, each would be able to spend the same amount of money. Cambridge, however, has to provide subsidized housing, bus kids to integrate its schools, run low-cost hospitals, and fight high crime rates, while the suburb faces no crises much larger than where to build the Olympic-size swimming pool...
Surrounded by model manicured lawns in the Washington suburb of Columbia, Md., one lot has gone back to nature. As a result it has become a home for bluebirds, cardinals, butterflies, deer, foxes, raccoons, chipmunks and turtles. Between Fire Station 8 and a bank in a San Francisco warehouse area, a green grove of trees and shrubs attracts finches, hawks, hummingbirds and others seldom seen in the city's industrial neighborhood. Ten trees and a variety of bushes growing on a 30-ft. by 40-ft. backyard in Brooklyn have attracted 105 varieties of birds, including crow, red-bellied...
...VINCENNES and NO TO DISMANTLING OUR ZOO. The latest watchwords were responses to the sudden resignation of Vincennes' beleaguered president, Pierre Merlin, 42, and the renewed determination of the French government to cut down the university's size by moving it to the working-class Paris suburb of Saint-Denis...