Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beneath the generic black on white lettering of Cambridge street signs--"Parking. By Permit Only," "Tow Away Zone"--hang inviting renderings of homes, bridges and snowy streets. A closer look reveals that the bolts fastening the paintings have been turned upward in anticipation of thieves...
Yancey said a "combat zone" mentality in Boston allows public safety to be ignored in certain areas. "Criminal activity is allowed to continue provided it does not leak out into the white community," said Yancey...
...seen traffic at Hampton Beach from eight in the morning until eight at night, bumper to bumper," Hampton Police Sgt. Victor DeMarco told the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board during hearings on evacuation plans for New Hampshire communities within Seabrook's 10-mile emergency zone...
Seabrook is loaded with nuclear fuel but has been unable to win an operating license because of evacuation planning problems. Massachusetts has refused to submit emergency plans for six communities within the zone...
...ghastly souvenirs, and adults renounce a lifetime of propriety for some guilty, convulsive sex. But this is not a horror story, though there are horrors for the Rohans to endure. And though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises; most families find the strength to soldier on. Boorman is even gracious enough to cap his film with an idyllic reunion of clan Rohan. Mum and her sisters giggle conspiratorially; young Bill, now a gentleman of precious leisure, goes boating on the river. These...