Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge City Council gave Harvard a homework assignment last night at its weekly meeting. While postponing a vote on a living wage ordinance for the city, the council adopted an order urging Harvard to adopt a living wage for its own workers...
Harvard students spoke at the meeting, urging the council to adopt a Cambridge wide living wage ordinance. Even though that ordinance was not discussed, Harvard students did not return to campus empty handed. Vice-Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio moved the impromptu late order that supported the students' efforts to bring a living wage to Harvard...
...first contemplated using this column for evil purposes when TIME agreed to shell out $10,000 to adopt a stretch of highway for me. If they'll do that, I reasoned, imagine what other people will do. I dreamed of strong-arming mayors to give me keys to their cities, persuading a minor league team to let me throw out the first pitch and getting women to talk to me. Then it struck me: I needed to see the Playboy Mansion...
...past year, when his wife divorced him and he reopened the mansion to parties, was probably the best of his life. I suspect that may be due to the invention of his beloved Viagra--I'm sure it's all related. "Now all I have to do is adopt a highway," he said. "I've adopted a couple of twins. That's more expensive." I had no idea what he meant. But joking about twins seemed like a cool, International Playboy kind of thing, so I laughed...
Joel Stein's piece in which he called the Adopt-a-Highway program the lamest charity he'd ever heard of [NOTEBOOK, March 1] was a slap in the face to those of us who care about the state of the environment. This program provides money and manpower to help clean littered stretches of highway. Maybe Stein enjoys seeing the rotting wrappers that blow across the endless roadways, but most of us do not. BRANDICE HARTSOCK Blacksburg...