Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group started to drift off in twos and threes to Eliot House, which has been home, more or less, for the past month. Maggie made her way across the Anderson Bridge with Nancy Storrs--she knew Nancy probably better than any of the others, having rowed with her all spring in Cambridge at the Eastern Development Camp, a private rowing club. They paused in the Eliot House-courtyard, where a few people are almost always sitting and talking on the steps or the grass or the patio. But Maggie was quiet, and she soon left to take a shower before...
...days, as the garbage festered, Mayor Abraham Beame quickened his shuttle negotiations with Albany, trying to find a new accommodation for the city. The task was considerably complicated by Beame's being caught in a political crossfire between Democratic Governor Hugh Carey and State Senate Republican Leader Warren Anderson, who tied any increase in state aid and taxing power to increased school aid for his suburban constituency...
Rewarding Strike. At last, Albany and the Big Apple threw together another financial arrangement: Governor Carey and Anderson compromised on an agreement to grant the city $330 million in new taxing powers-money to be raised mainly in the form of levies on bond sales, banks and corporate franchises, a painful step in a city where taxes are already higher per capita than anywhere else...
...Dinos" grew more famous in the 1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
...fringes of desirable downtown areas. When architects come in to assess conversion problems, they have to take an approach contrary to all of their training; instead of form following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself determines the kinds of spaces you make." When the plans are completed, says Architect Roger Lang of Boston's Stahl-Bennett Inc., "you still have to find a banker who is willing to believe that you can make that funny old wharf into...