Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last major highway projects to be proposed in Boston have been stopped short by concerns about neighborhood destruction and the seizing of homes. The Inner Belt and the Southeast Expressway, would have threatened the destruction of several thousand homes two decades ago. Both the Belt and the Expressway should have been stopped and they were...
...Scheme Z doesn't threaten any homes. In fact, its prime backers, former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Frederick P. Salvucci, were leaders in the fight against the Belt and Expressway...
While the debate over federal funding continues, congressional cutbacks and belt tightening has brought the GAO to Palo Alto, Calif. and, recently, to Cambridge...
...that "in the overall scheme of things $300,000 is not that huge," he says that the money "is a lot to cut out of a very tight budget." He points out that the financial aid budget will come under even greater strain as Harvard College tightens its own belt...
...brown suede shoes to plead his case. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, not so long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History is made of such things in such times...