Word: townes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ramparts, we'll pour boiling water on them.' " He claims these suburban offices are such lonely places that consultants have to be imported as visitors. "One guy said, 'You've missed an important point. It is true no one comes out to see us. But when we go into town, we're much more careful, and we schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise would be the case.' He proceeded to sketch out a formula for cutting yourself off from any unplanned encounter." And the unplanned encounter, Whyte concludes, is one of the joys of urban life: "You hear...
This is obviously not Lassie Come Home; it is the odd couple as crime busters. Turner is a small-town detective, an apt occupation for a man of his temperament. He has placed Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local...
...been dormant since the 1933 election, leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...
...this week even Dukakis's home town of Brookline has joined the Duke-bashing by bringing suit against the state over the aid crisis. (Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an editorial cartoon in which a toga-clad Dukakis cries "Et tu, Brookline...
...Cambridge is by no means a one-party town. For more than 40 years, the City Council has been split down the middle between candidates backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and those running as Independents...