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...Square. Glasnost or no, he found the city fathers tougher than Mayor Ed Koch, who calls the real estate mogul "piggy, piggy, piggy" but lets him rule huge swaths of the city anyway. "The system there is so different," Trump said. "I didn't find the incentive to build as far as my time and money were concerned...
...example, already has both air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, and plans to build thousands of a new, advanced, low-observable "stealth" version. Because they fly slowly compared with ICBMs, American cruise missiles are not by themselves considered a first-strike weapon -- like bombers, they would take hours to hit targets deep inside the Soviet Union...
REAL estate, it's all about real estate. Harvard may be Cambridge's largest landowner, but it seems that no one associated with the school can ever get enough space. Undergraduates are clamoring for a student center; the faculty is begging for more offices; Harvard Real Estate wants to build a hotel on the Gulf Station lot; and the final clubs, which own some of the most valuable property in the Square, selfishly keep it from students who need it, sharing it only with their few male members...
...Harvard is on a collision course with the community. Glasnost is over," says Gladys P. Gifford about the University's plan to raze the Mass. Ave. Gulf station and build a hotel on the site...
Alan Dyson, executive director of the Cambridge Partnership for Public Education, a coalition of businesses and universities set up two years ago, said his office awarded the grants of $300 to $500 last month to "build bridges to reduce isolation." He said teachers would use the money to bring in advocacy organizations for groups such as immigrants and the handicapped to talk with students about their background...