Word: playground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a system that still seems stranded in its noisy infancy. Almost no one would deny that health and education, both free, have improved considerably since the days of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Grinding poverty has been erased. Drugs and prostitution, which flourished when the place was a raffish offshore playground for Americans, have now gone underground. But in the face of those advances, the man in the Havana street is still unable to speak or travel as he pleases. Money is more than ever in desperately short supply. "Cuba is suffering an economic crisis of massive proportions," says a foreign...
...because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound of it, the place had its charm. Davis, Darryl Strawberry of the Mets and Chris Brown of the Giants all took aim at the same high fence enclosing the 68th Street playground. They shot for 70th Street, and beyond...
...scene yesterday at Soldiers Field was reminiscent of the old playground days--with a twist. The smaller kids beat up the bully...
...addition, the city has received a $140,000 grant from the State Executive Office of Communities and Development to build a playground and a garden for local residents on a nearby vacant lot which is now used for parking...
Several members of RCCC, plus councilors Saundra Graham and Alice Wolf, testified in favor of the project, while others complained that the two-part development project would further crowd a neighborhood where open space is already scarce. They called the promised playground and garden small compensation for the loss of the lot, which would be built over...