Word: alum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study, conducted by engineer David Erekson, recommends that the city cease the dumping as soon as possible. More than two tons of sludge, composed mostly of organic silt and alum, a coagulant used to separate waste, are dumped each...
...band's been big in the Boston music scene for about four years now, having started while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Often dubbed "Dinosaur Jr. Jr.," the band grew under the tutelage of J. Mascis, a fellow UMass alum and backbone of Dinosaur Jr. The bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh...
...dream the other night that a generous alum had donated $7 million toward the construction of a student center for Harvard's uncomfortably decentralized campus. Of course, that's what really happened last week when Katherine Bogdonovich Loker helped move along plans to turn Memorial Hall into the first-year dining hall, theatre and all-purpose campus meeting place...
Along these lines, however, the staff's suggestion that Harvard might find the money by encouraging alumni to contribute "not to flashy projects but to basic, day-to-day budgets and student services" is wildly idealistic. Does the staff really expect any wealthy alum to donate $1 million to an endowment for clerical salaries...
Priscilla Fairburn is an emotionally needy Radcliffe alumna, a self-described writer whose role seems limited to one line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...