Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEST WING (NBC) Attention, networks: There is dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...
Jerusalem's police have bigger things to worry about than the Y2K bug - the Holy City's gendarmes are concerned about their precinct playing ground zero in some attempt to hasten a New Year's Eve Armageddon...
Once he wrapped his arms around second and gave it a quick hug, he was escorted from the field by Fenway security and presumably was booked at the nearest precinct headquarters...
...river in Allston, outraging many residents, Harvard is beginning to develop plans for the new property. A physical planning committee is considering several uses for the land in the years and decades ahead; among their ideas is that the Allston property could be developed into a new "academic precinct" of the University, perhaps as a new home for one or more of Harvard's space-starved graduate schools...
Harvard, however, must learn from its mistakes. The University should not develop the land the same way it bought it--without regard for the Allston community. No matter how attractive a new "academic precinct" might sound to University planners, convincing residents already leary of Harvard that it will be good for Allston might not be so easy...