71.   Though they laughingly call themselves a gang and pass around the occasional joint, their backgrounds smack more of bourgeoisie domesticity than of mean streets.

72.   To understand Tkachuk is to know his background, a big kid who came from the mean streets of East Boston.

73.   What did a guy born in England and now living in Toronto know from our mean streets?

74.   While fare increases have been nominally tied to service improvements, plenty of clunkers still cruise the mean streets.

75.   Who, after all, can concentrate on getting to work on time if it requires an act of courage just to step outside onto the mean streets?

76.   Yes, even in Greenwich, which hardly has a mean street in it, there are rappers, hip-hop feuds and a flying fist or two.

77.   Yet he has learned to keep his head down on the mean streets of Los Angeles.

78.   But by putting her down on the mean streets, the Congress leadership has proved to be as stupid as the farmer in the golden goose tale.

79.   His pal, Mamadou Sissoko, a Mauritanian rapper in a baseball cap, spat toward the mean streets named for poets and painters he could not place.

80.   It was the reality of the mean streets.