Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green Line is the most distinctly Bostonian of the four iron mole lines. The tracks make crazy turns, the cars' wheels screech terribly, and the cars are too small--more streetcars taken underground than proper subway cars. The passengers are nearly a cross-section of the city's population. With stops at Northeastern University, Boston College, and at least a dozen other schools, the Green Line gets plenty of students, but it also gets much more than the 19-to-27 crowd that sometimes starts to seem like the only possible age group in the Square--it's a major...
Businessmen were generally angry, however, about Carter's decision to abandon the proposed increases in the investment tax credit. Many of them believe that higher credits are the best way to ensure full economic recovery. Said William Shesky, president of the Bostonian Shoe Co.: "The real approach to attacking inflation is through the private sector, by increasing productivity." But interviews by TIME correspondents across the country indicated that businessmen probably would have continued to mistrust Carter in any event. One reason: many businessmen fear that he will turn out to be a big-spending liberal in spite of his conservative...
...Boston's City Hall, a Festival Bostonian Retrospective features the fine art, crafts and cultural artifacts of 23 ethnic groups celebrated by Festival Bostonian since April, 1975 (9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, through January...
...useful introduction to this new edition provides an account of Childers' tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became...
...least $18.5 million (about $10 million of that for Ford). Perhaps in an effort to keep their smalltown, mainstream images unsullied, both candidates have avoided the sophisticated agencies of Madison Avenue. Carter's adman is Atlanta-based Gerald Rafshoon, while the Ford campaign is being handled by Bostonian Malcolm MacDougall...