Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the Purchase Option Plan, tenured Harvardfaculty members could buy Harvard-owned housesnear the University, receiving mortgages wellbelow the market rate on all or part of theircost, said Tandler...
...said the mortgage plans included a specialmeasure "to prevent speculation" that requiredbuyers who left Harvard or moved within five yearsto sell their houses back to the University forthe same price they had paid. If the owners soldtheir houses at any time, Harvard had the firstoption to buy them back...
...years later, Tandler said, Harvard beganto run out of buildings to sell to faculty, andcreated the Cambridge Option Plan. Under thisprogram, Harvard gave below-rate loans to facultymembers who wanted to buy homes in Cambridge.Again, if these professors chose to sell theirhomes, Harvard would have the first chance to buythem...
...settlement, signed by Reagan in August, gives the Wampanoags more than 400 acres of undeveloped island land. The state and federal governments are to pay $2.25 million each to buy 180 acres from private landowners in the island town of Gay Head, and the town is to contribute 238 acres of publicly owned land...
...live-action space adventure, enables children to play along at certain points by shooting at villains on-screen with a special Power Jet weapon (cost: $30 to $40). An electronic signal responds to each "hit" and tots up the . player's score. Charren argues that by encouraging children to buy an expensive toy to participate, such shows unfairly divide the young audience into "the haves and the have-nots...