Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference is most dramatic at the top. Homes in Connecticut that shot up to $2 million may now fetch only $1.3 million. It's not so bad in the real world -- three-bedroom homes in my sunny but unfashionable Miami neighborhood that rose from $65,000 to $85,000 over the past two or three years are still $85,000. But the notion that real estate prices will always go up, once common knowledge, like the notion that grapefruits can be eaten only in halves, is finally subject to doubt. After decades of steadily rising prices, we could...
Responding to complaints by neighborhood residents over persistent noise from Greenough Hall, University officials reminded the dorm's occupants of Harvard's "good neighbor" policy in a mandatory meeting Thursday night...
...pattern would be tedious if it were not so deadly. Every time the government of El Salvador announces that, yes, the rebel offensive is finally over and the capital of San Salvador is safe again, the guerrillas pop up in yet another neighborhood...
Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
...daily tutoring programs to an undergraduate-coached basketball team, Harvard students spend a lot of time working with the high school students next-door. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) deploys about 40 students regularly in its work with Rindge and Latin, and other groups such as the Housing and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) send platoons of undergraduate volunteers...