Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community representatives--including Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55--were shown Graduate School of Design models for the property. A preliminary design, announced last month, includes both office space--a source of revenue for Harvard--and housing which tapers to small houses on the neighborhood edge to provide the buffer desired by the community...
...University paid more than ever before for an undeveloped piece of land--almost $4 million--and from the beginning let everyone know it planned on recouping the investment. Its original plan was for housing, and that was good news to the neighbors, who saw the parking lot as a buffer between 1B and the adjoining upper class residential district. And the University also earned a certain amount of good will simply because it seemed a better developer than DiGiovanni, who had once proposed twin skyscrapers for the site...
...guerrillas as a staging area for attacks against northern Israel. Israel, in turn, has thrown its support to Haddad's 2,000-man militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to try to get a ceasefire...
...Many of these men, after all, have careers that stretch back to 1945 and the wartime Allied conference at Yalta, which established a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In Joseph Stalin's eyes, Poland was the most important part of that sphere because it is a buffer between Russia and Germany...
...area blocked local roads in protest, while sympathizers in Jerusalem threatened to demonstrate in front of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's office. In Washington, meanwhile, Secretary of State Alexander Haig revived a controversial proposal that could station more than 1,000 U.S. peace-keeping troops in the buffer zone that will guarantee the security of the two countries after the withdrawal. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman last week traveled across the much-disputed area. His report...