Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, it staked out 6,060 acres for improvement-far outstripping its nearest rivals, Philadelphia (3,586) and Boston (1,787). Meanwhile, that hoped-for rehabilitation has become a headache: only one of Cleveland's seven reclamation projects has been completed; others remain wastelands of weed-grown vacant lots and high-rise trash heaps...
...York World Journal Tribune was barely buried before other publishers began speculating about the vacant slot in the city's afternoon field. The New York Times, the New York Daily News and Time Inc. all acknowledged that they were considering the possibility of publishing a newspaper. The paper they talked about differed, of course, in many respects from the one that folded. But just what sort of paper would it be? Last week some people intimately acquainted with the vagaries of the New York newspaper scene offered opinions...
leronymos also called for an end to the hierarchy's Byzantine bickering over power and prestige. Announcing that he would soon fill 15 sees long left vacant because of bishops' jealousies, the archbishop warned that "any clergyman who attempts to canvass his election, directly or through middlemen, will be disqualified...
...Sleep. A few students complain that the computer is too inflexible a taskmaster. Asked in a programmed geography course how she would use a vacant lot in downtown Chicago, Irvine Drama Student Tana Shattuck proposed a new musical theater for the space. "The computer answered, 'You need more sleep,' " she recalls. "But I wish I could have talked with it about my idea. It was programmed for a certain thing...
...mayoralty race Lindsay, therefore, had at his disposal a hardcore of workers, experienced and able to move out into the other four boroughs to set up and manage a grassroots campaign. In each neighborhood vacant stores were rented to serve as local headquarters for volunteers, in most cases Democrats or independents. These storefronts were a new campaign concept developed by whizz-politico Price...