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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Montgomery County, Md., offers bonuses to developers for providing certain public facilities. If they build pedestrian walkways or include an entrance to Washington, D.C.'s subway system as part of their buildings, they are permitted to increase floor space or add extra stories to new structures. The county has also set up a novel way to protect farmland from suburbanization. Farmers can sell "rural development rights" for their property to builders, who can then use those rights in such urban areas as Bethesda and Silver Spring. The farmer gets paid, his land is protected from builders, since the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creative Zoning | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Swados' melodies, with their rhythmic simplicity and charming lyrics, form a musical chain that ties Alice's escapades together. The audience might not leave the theater humming the tunes from any of the more than 30 musical numbers, but the songs do add an essential vitality and youthfulness to the production...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Ring Around the Rosie | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

...course. Once a stopover for would-be commercial journalists, NPR had become state-of-the-art radio and a place people wanted to stick around. As a veteran reporter phrased it, "the big difference was that NPR was a place people really believed in," going on to add that many of the employees passed up better paying jobs for a chance to work at the network...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Sending Out an S.O.S. | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

...view, these argument, are labored at best. Students who do not register face the threat of jail sentences and fines. The loss of federal grants and subsidized loans could costly add several thousand dollars more to these criminal penalties. In such circumstances it would start common sense to argue that the willingness of the University to offer a regular job or an unsubsidized loan could encourage disrespect for law or flout the will of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of President Bok's Policy Statement | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

...RADACADS (Radical Academics) vow to expose the ways of the Harvard Administration until the banner is paid for or returned. We call on others who have been harassed to contact us so that we may add to our forthcoming compilation of examples of political harassment. There will be a rapid escalation of exposure of the Harvard Administration in the coming months. Only in this way--not by the old idealist arguments for free speech--will revolutionary and progressive groups be relieved of a pattern of political repression. Henry C. Park '84 RADACADS spokesperson

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banner Stolen? | 8/9/1983 | See Source »

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