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...NCAA decision to extend Melrose's hockey career is a major boon for Harvard, which was expecting to start the season short on experience in the defensive...
...communicate with the voters and mobilize political support. But this brings to mind the old joke about the small-town attorney who was going broke until another lawyer showed up, and they both got rich suing each other. Similarly, one media adviser in a foreign country may be a boon for democracy, but bring in a rival and you create that lucrative state known as consultant gridlock. Before long the airwaves will be dominated by dueling commercials, each more shrill and negative than the last, until foreign elections pivot on the local equivalents of Willie Horton and the Pledge...
...time some economists predict that the housing industry, aided by falling mortgage rates, may bounce back later in the year. Last week the Government reported that housing starts during June rose 7%, to an annual rate of 1.4 million. Even so, some experts are cautious about predicting a housing boon because the rise was entirely attributable to an increase in multifamily houses and apartment buildings. There was no growth in single-family-home construction, which forms the largest part of the industry...
...years Soviet officials feared that accurate maps and city guides would be a boon to spies and saboteurs and, as a result, were highly selective in their cartography. The notorious Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters of the KGB was nowhere to be found on most Soviet-made maps. And out in the countryside, rivers, villages and mountains moved with each new edition...
...years ago, when the seven male-dominated unions on Harvard's campus gave their support to the organizing campaign of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), many observers viewed it as a great boon for the fledgling support staff union...