Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rate of about 600 per year, Miranda says. The report on the Hispanic population shows that most immigrants come directly to Cambridge from their native countries, but that was not the case with earlier immigrants. They arrived in New York City, and gradually filtered into Connecticut and Springfield before settling in Boston or Cambridge...
...later in the week. Republican Governor James Thompson summoned some anti-ERA legislators to his bedside, where he was recuperating from a strained back, and asked them to reconsider. The feminists and their supporters, including six busloads of burly male Steel workers, roamed the halls of the statehouse in Springfield. Lois Anne Rosen of Chicago collared her hapless representative, Robert Krska, in the corridor and demanded: "How can you be an American and be against equality?" In a weak attempt at humor, Krska mumbled, "Maybe we shouldn't have given you the vote," and then slipped away through...
Golf 385, Dartmouth 387, Springfield...
Near Chicago, 850 Glenview, Ill., schoolchildren spent the day planting trees to beautify the town; 200 miles to the southwest, residents of the Springfield area were completing a weeklong "trash-a-thon," aimed at cleaning up the litter along some 90 miles of local roads. Traffic was banned on part of Main Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., where 5,000 Earth Day strollers examined solar water heaters and other exhibits. In Atlanta 300 people devoured a giant 180-lb. Earth Day birthday cake-made, naturally, with no artificial ingredients...
...that Gannett has never acquired a paper it did not improve. This is testimony partly to the sorry quality of medium-sized papers in the U.S. But it is also true that Gannett has expunged the rabid right-wing excesses from a few of its papers-notably those in Springfield, Mo., and Nashville -and dramatically upgraded other properties, like the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. As even Morris Udall admits, "If you're going to have chain newspapers, you're not going to do much better than the kind of aggressive, community-minded, broad-based operation that Gannett...