Word: buntinged
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The reaction of the City Council to the news was relatively unconstructive. Bound by laws prohibiting it from interfering with Harvard expansion, the council voted only to drape City Hall in purple bunting, a symbol of mourning over the "slow death" of the city before Harvard's expansion.
After a few quiet months, the city Monday released a report detailing University property purchases over the last decade. The finding--Harvard owned some 700,000 square feet more of Cambridge than it did ten years ago, a statistic that prompted the City Council to drape City Hall in purple...
The City Council last night voted to have city workers drape City Hall with garlands of purple bunting today to symbolize Cambridge's "slow death" caused by Harvard's removal of property from city tax rolls.
"If Harvard's growth continues to accelerate at this speed, then surely the city is on the defensive and the University is on the march," Councilor David Wylie said. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who proposed the bunting because "purple is the color of death," accused Harvard of "legalized thievery."
The college will pay an assistant dean a salary "in the high teens or low twenties" to administer the Forum's programs, Wolfman said, adding that the Bunting Institute and Schlesinger Library--which are also feeling the budget pincers--as well as the Seminar Office will take over some projects...