Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This area is pivotal to the entire eastern Harvard Square area," said Robert J. La Tremouille, an attorney and Harvard Square resident. He added that Zero Arrow St. would be "constructed in such a manner as to turn the whole area into a mall" and would cause traffic congestion...
...crack-contaminated infants, she did not wait for someone else to show the way. "There was a void in the system," she explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from officials who knew and respected her work. She named her program for Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned South African black leader Nelson Mandela...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...employment while the INS scrutinizes their pleas. But to stem a surge of arrivals from Central America, the INS delayed granting work permits until asylum applications could be processed and told the refugees to remain near their point of entry until the paperwork was completed. The new regulations helped turn the Rio Grande Valley into a giant alien way station...
...take them all in, the dream lives on. For that reaca p16.227son, the immigration wave is not likely to stop or even slow. "People aren't going to write their relatives and say, 'Don't come,' " argues Bishop Fitzpatrick. Nor, despite the burden, is the U.S. likely to turn its back on its history by hanging out a sign that reads NO VACANCY...