Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently this stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Square was a self-contained neighborhood, with quiet restaurants and bars, its own movie theater and small, local businesses catering to the area's residents...
...while most people say that the changes are not for the worse, they add that the pace has quickened for this once-slow stretch between two of Cambridge's busiest areas. A new, high-tech way of life has moved in, with an upscale grocery store, a compact disc shop and futon vendors now lining the street...
...fair, skiing is more than the endurance of intense physical pain; it is humiliating and tortuous mentally as well. Start with the names of the slopes. "Suicide Stretch," "The Outer Limits" and "Kamikaze Run" are advanced slopes with names that make adrenaline boil...
Princeton Captain Bob Scrabis stole the ball from Penn Captain Walt Frazier, Jr. twice in the last minute, and the Tigers hit several free throws down the stretch to clinch...
...effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems...