Just a week after its decision, under intense community pressure, the board reversed itself.
They also depended on community pressure to regulate human conduct.
"It was going to be amid people's homes and they backed off because of community pressure," he said.
The other big land deals are moving ahead, though greatly modified after community pressure.
The school board accepted the recommendations made by the committee, but faced increasing community pressure.
The Russians, who have already spent $3 million on design plans, say they will not bow to community pressure.
The city tried to close it in 1954 because of budget problems, but community pressure kept it open.
I got to see the process behind the curtain, how community pressure opened doors.
But community pressure did bring about preservation restrictions on the auction, which took place in 1983.
If there was no community pressure and the law, few banks would do something.