Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the years, Beacon Hill officials have argued that Harvard has abused its special rights. Many single out Harvard's handling of its Medical Area Total Energy Plant construction, citing the University's fight with local residents over the plant's environmental safeguards as the latest in a series of events displaying insensitivity. Furthermore, State House officials blame independently wealthy Harvard for snubbing state politics for national concerns. Adding to strained relations between the parties has been the burgeoning of public educational institutions since the 1960s. The increasing number of state-funded schools has sparked some conflict with the private...
...There is a very strong effort on Beacon Hill to increase state aid to cities and towns who must decrease their expenditures because of 2 1/2. It is expected that the Commonwealth will reimburse up to 50 percent of the the decrease suffered by the cities and towns. There is a very good chance that this effort will be successful in light of the fact that there was a surplus in the state budget in the current fiscal year ending June 30th. Cambridge could get back up to five million dollars on the expected cut back of 10 million dollars...
MOST OF THE people in line at the Sack Beacon Hill asked for tickets to Das Boot Pronouncing it like what cowboys wear, probably ready to see another complex, harshly intellectual film, as they have come to expect from recent German filmmakers. Once in the dark, however, they discovered that Boot not only means "boat," but is pronounced just like the English word; and, moreover, that this is a good old-fashioned action-packed American-style war movie. Complete with a tough, taciturn captain, young bloom-of-manhood sailors just doing their duty, suspense, explosions, and the general message that...
...Then a reporter for the Akron Beacon-Journal, McKenney later became celebrated for My Sister Eileen, the Broadway comedy hit of the 1940 season...
...Israelienne"and swears that Palestine "est determinee a continuer la marche vers la liberte." Whether or not the baby has such determination at the moment, she will probably have it in four or five years. By then she may be an instrument of determination herself, her very name a beacon to other Palestinian children who are raised in this country to inherit their parents' dreams and enemies...