Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building plans for the gym are finished and are sitting neatly rolled up in a corner of President Horner's office. Radcliffe officials now only await a vote on the down-zoning petition to limit Harvard's building space that over a hundred Observatory Hill residents signed last spring. Yet whether or not the Council passes the petition, Radcliffe could still build the gym, since it fits the strictest zoning regulations...
...confused. Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice-president for community affairs responds to the community's recent activities by admitting, "to tell you the truth, I don't understand what they are trying to do." He adds, of course, that Harvard will fight any restrictions on its rights to build in Cambridge. And not only have residents made their own work more difficult by skirting the problem and stalling for time, but they have avoided any direct communication with the institution they are battling...
...Boston cases that led to last week's roundup. Blazes are set by quasi-professional "torches" hired by landlords, real estate brokers, store owners, or welfare tenants who want to be relocated. The purpose, as New York Columnist Jimmy Breslin has put it, is to "build vacant lots for money." Charging up to $3,500 or a cut of the insurance money, the torch frequently mixes a brew of acid and sophisticated oxidizing agents to ignite a chemical fire that is all but impossible to trace...
...fact cited by the Nobel Committee. In its well-documented reports on torture and human rights abuses around the world, AI has cited Czechoslovakia as well as Chile, the Soviet Union as well as Iran. Much of the Nobel Prize money, said Chairman Thomas Ham-marberg, will go to build more local organizations in Third World countries in Asia and Latin America...
...look at people today. They do not got to expensive French restaurants to ward off starvation. Movie stars do not build huge mansions merely to escape the cold. Nor does the businessman wear patent leather shoes to protect his feet from the hot pavement...