Word: basement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time, Brooke had conceded, and ABC had picked King to be the next governor of the Commonwealth. Though the green blackboard in the basement of the Commonwealth Ave. Harvard Club boasted the Newton-Boston returns--3555 for Crampton, 3372 for Crane--Crampton reported that the computer-tally break-down stalled the real story, and the story really was that Crampton was behind, by his own estimate--"about 21/2 or 31/2...
Housed in a basement office underneath Sanders Theater, WHRB boasts a collection of some 30,000 record albums and a total staff of about 100 people. It is one of only seven college stations in the country that owns its own licence. (The FCC, says Barol, is rather stingy about dispensing licences because it wants to avoid interference between stations operating at frequencies too close to one another...
These days the scene down in the basement of Mem Hall is bustling. The pigeon-holed mailbox is crammed with as many as 30 to 40 new releases from major record companies each day, to be perused by the programming directors of WHRB's rock, jazz and classical music departments. There is ambitious talk of building a remote-control transmitter in Medford, which would increase the potential listenership by several thousand. WHRB executives themselves exude professionalism and self-confidence...
...means guarantee farmers a profit. Government outlays to support farm incomes have quadrupled in two years, to an estimated $7.9 billion in fiscal 1978. But the Administration has resisted pressure to set support prices still higher?even though Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last winter had to climb out a basement window to escape a few fanatic farmers who invaded his office demanding that the Government bail them...
...space-age barn. In fact, the strange structure is somewhat out of this world. Now in its final stage of testing, it is the prototype of a new generation of giant optical telescopes that could open fresh vistas on the heavens - and, by astronomy's standards, at bargain-basement prices...