Word: townes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS summer, one prominent Harvard liberal extolled to me, over a few beers, the virtues of living in New York City. I told her that I prefer my little home-town in West Virginia, where you can leave your keys in your car, and where no one would think of walking past a starving man on the sidewalk. "Yes," she said, looking at me impatiently, "but what can you do on weekends...
...last night's City Council meeting, Councillor David E. Sullivan introduced an order saying that the ad "strongly suggests that supporters of Proposition 1-2-3 are again planning to import out of town mercenaries to deceive Cambridge voters at the polls...
...They always use tons of temps before Election Day," said Aasen. "Every service in town does...
...other business, the council heard from Nancy Ryan, a coordinator of Cambridge's sister city relationship with San Jose Las Flores in El Salvador. Ryan said the El Salavdoran town was occupied last week by a batallion of that country's treasury police...
Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, near the tiny town of Parkfield, scientists are conducting an experiment that they hope will open the door to a new era of earthquake prediction. Along a 20-mile section of the San Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000 ft. deep into the earth and laced the surface with "creep meters" that measure rock movement. "We're listening to the heartbeat of this section of the fault very, very closely," says the Geological Survey's Thatcher. The Parkfield section of the San Andreas is unusual in that...