Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality in the U.S. was reported to be the worst in the decade by monitors of the Environmental Protection Agency. In Milwaukee 18 days of unhealthy ozone levels represented an 80% increase over 1987. Says Steve Howards, executive director of Denver's Metropolitan Air Quality Council: "The air is still breathable, but clearly the trends are running against...
...Boston harbor mess indeed predates Dukakis. A system largely designed in the 1950s to give rudimentary treatment to sewage simply could not cope with rapid growth in the Boston area, and the Metropolitan District Commission, charged with maintaining the sewage system, was a nest of political cronies. "It was a place that employed everybody's cousin," recalls former Republican Governor Francis Sargent. As early as 1972, Sargent had committed the state to cleaning up the harbor, but had to fight a recalcitrant MDC every step...
...best place in the U.S. according to a Money magazine survey. Money asked subscribers to weigh 50 factors such as low crime, real estate appreciation, schools, climate, transportation, parks and medical care on a scale of one to ten, and then used Census data to find out which metropolitan areas met those criteria...
Shrieking children and splashing water hardly typifies you usual metropolitan museum exhibit. But then again, with its leapfrog computer games and automobile video displays, the Children's Museum of Boston is not your typical marble and musty chamber...
...unthinkable that serious attempts should not be made. Hence the interest of "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors," a show of some 180 works that has been on view jointly at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, the exhibit has already been seen in Houston and Washington; after Miami, through September 1989, it will travel to Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New York City. It is by far the most detailed and serious effort ever...