Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other problem with condos, the one most often cited by its critics, is that many tenants forced from their homes by condominium conversion cannot afford to buy the new units. Instead, critics contend, they are forced onto public housing rolls or they have no recourse but to leave Cambridge in search of more inexpensive quarters. "The elderly are the ones that suffer the most," city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci says...
...energy, and excuses his lack of imaginative leadership in confronting these problems by calling his Presidency "a time to heal," borrowing from Ecclesiastes. If it actually were a time to heal, that healing called for active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity of the WIN button (which Ford still defends as a "good idea"); in line with his Calvinistic youth, Ford is begging off his responsibility to a force, in this case history, beyond his control...
...when it comes to paying employees, Harvard's salaries can't match a manufacturer's. Barbara Wickenden, personnel officer at the Education School, says the most frequent worker's complaint is about salary. "We cannot compete one-to-one with industry," she says...
Most of these hopefuls still have to take that one-year requirement. Though they try to persuade Kenneth T. Dinklage, psychologist to UHS, that their low aptitude and hatred of languages constitutes a psychological barrier they cannot possibly surmount, Dinklage generally tells them politely that they are stuck. These several hundred students who have no physical reason for doing poorly in language courses "are the real victims," Dinklage says. "Those that have an identifiable disability get a waiver...
...excellences in character acting balance any such flaws. Melvyn Douglas, a reliable old pro, plays the aging, once powerful Senator Birney, whose friendship Tynan must betray. Alda's best moments come when he is Douglas's foil; Tynan feels contempt for the old man's politics but cannot help sympathizing when Birney lapses into senility and the Cajun tongue of his youth. Rip Torn plays a hilarious cameo as the libidinous buffoon, Sen. Ritner...