Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...payment, later asked for a review of the tax-exempt status of the Biological Laboratories on the grounds that private funds were being used for research, and just two weeks ago sponsored a City Council motion requesting $150,000 from Harvard for a new fire truck. "Every time we answer an alarm at one of their tax-exempt buildings, it costs us money," Vellucci said...
...problems are numerous and identifiable; the solutions to them are not. For City Manager Sullivan, the politics of confrontation is one answer. "They are increasingly going to find themselves in court," Sullivan says. Others say a little bending on both sides would help the situation, "I don't agree that the University is 100 per cent to blame," Crane said recently. "Some city councilors, for political reasons, would rather see a war than a peace. They University is an easy target for them," he adds...
...Crane, and to Brewer and his co-workers in the community relations department, the answer is a gradual "opening up of the lines of communication." "I took the initiative on a problem last month--finding a new home for the Observatory Hill branch library, and they listened. Those lines have to be systematically opened and kept that way," Crane said, "or else each party will keep on going its own way, and when something happens, all hell will break loose just like it does...
...answer is particularly clear in the case of boycotts. If a majority of students agree to bear the higher cost of a given product, which only they use, then the University should honor their freely-made decision not to contribute their money to an objectionable corporation, whether it sells a product that kills babies or engages in a vicious union-busting...
...construct a model curriculum for anyone else and there was no intent of any kind to ever seek publicity for what we were doing. So that to some extent the impression may have been created because the newspapers picked it up that Harvard was purporting to provide the answer for everyone else--that is an artifact of the media and that has nothing to do with what we were trying to accomplish, nor did the interest in the media arise in any way from our efforts. So whether or not other colleges profit in any way or adapt their curriculum...