Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merchants in Fort Myers are a little merrier about security this holiday season. Eleven police officers in Santa suits, complete with white beards, candy canes and hidden firearms, are patrolling the town's stores, keeping an eye out for grinches who would steal Christmas goodies. Already one Santa cop has nabbed a thief carrying off more than $1,000 in merchandise...
...hardly headline news anymore when a Japanese company opens a plant in an American town to make television sets or trucks, cars or VCRs. Recently, though, Japanese firms have been taking on a new mantle, this time as big-time U.S. landlords. Last week Mitsui Real Estate Development snapped up one of the best-known office towers in the U.S., paying $610 million for the Exxon Building...
...playing. New York recalls the two A.B.A. titles he celebrated with the Nets, but Mississippi's Necaise Crossing remembers that he came to Wendell Ladner's funeral. The Net forward Ladner died in an off-season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner, and he got to Necaise Crossing. "That was a memory, right there," he says with a distant look...
...remark was prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
Harvard's ECAC schedule resumes on January 3 when Vermont and first-team ECAC goalie Tom Draper come to town. After Vermont, the Crimson plays RPI, St. Lawrence, Clarkson and Yale in the three-week stretch before exams. Then there's a two-and-a-half week layoff before the first round of the Beanpot tournament...