Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NIMBY means "Not In My Back Yard." Into this folder went articles about neighborhood groups that didn't want sewage treatment plants constructed near their beautiful houses, or families who objected to proposals for homeless shelters next door...
...Sheraton siege brought the U.S. the closest it has ever been to exchanging fire with the Salvadoran guerrillas. It occurred just as the rebels' ten-day-old offensive, which had been fought in some of the capital's poorest neighborhoods, Soyapango, Cuidad Delgado and Mejicanos, seemed to be winding down. In the early hours of Sunday morning, hundreds of guerrillas were streaming out of Mejicanos' streets, badly battered by days of intensive government firepower. Where the rebels went, or how they managed to elude the government troops, no one seemed to know. But two days later, they re-emerged from...
Witnesses said the Avianca Airlines Boeing 727-100 exploded before it plunged into a hilly area south of the capital, about a mile from a neighborhood of slum houses and factories. Pieces of the jet were found up to six miles from the main point of impact, police said...
...pharmacy, a mainstay in the Agassiz neighborhood for 53 years, closed its doors at the end of September, but O'Connell said Harvard did not ask Bence to leave, adding that a new tenant is being sought to fill the space...
...interim, Harvard is negotiating new leases with the three current residents and seeking a new tenant for the Bence space, according to Whitlock. "Obviously it is in the interest of the neighborhood to have new tenant," she said...