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...Lechmere Canal site in East Cambridge, where an enormous hotel-office-condominium-park development is planned, bids will be opened later this week on the first phase of construction...
...bids--which should hit about $2 million--are from contractors who want to dredge out the old Lechmere Canal and do other basic work for the park development; landscaping and other finishing touches will be put out to bid in the spring...
...with justice. Most graduates of that institution--and especially the high-powered and much sought-after graduates of the Law Review--spend their lives handling the business of systematically and legally oppressing other Americans in the name of the greater corporate good. Helping Hooker Chemical explain away Love Canal or Ford disguise the problems with its Pinto is sorry work, no better if done by a Black man or a woman than by a prep-school WASP...
Another who got the full Reagan treatment was Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky. He has been wooed before. Back in 1978, when the Panama Canal Treaty was in the works, Jimmy Carter invited Zorinsky and 190 of his fellow Nebraskans to the White House for a briefing, had Rosalynn Carter call Zorinsky's wife, had Ambassador Sol Linowitz play tennis with the Senator (Linowitz lost), and invited both Zorinskys to a state dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
Says Charles Althafer, 49, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "Most folks are turned off by the disease of the month, by frightening reports on PCB and Love Canal. It makes them want to go home and suck their thumbs." Disaster seems to threaten through disease or radiation or some vague Apocalypse Now that everyone fears but cannot give a face to. Some Americans still prepare for anarchy by retreating to the hills with automatic weapons, radiation detectors and the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness; a few have taken to storing freeze-dried survival...