Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the freebies or subsidies that the city had given in past years will be stopped. At the community center, the biggest attraction in town, nominal fees for such things as jewelry making and yoga classes, pinball and poolrooms will be increased so that the users will pay the freight. "Dancercise" courses that used to cost $10, for example, will now cost $25. The meeting room in the Spanish-style community center will no longer be offered gratis. Senior citizens who hold weekly gatherings there are angry that they will have to rent the room...
Officials in Kolwezi, the copper center that had temporarily been held by the rebels, said it would take at least six months to reopen the mines?and longer, no doubt, to lure back the European specialists needed to help run them. Most of the city's 2,250 whites had been airlifted to safety in Belgium as legionnaires liberated the city. A dozen staff members of the huge Gécamines copper complex returned to hold their regular monthly payday for 13,000 African employees, though not much work was being done. At the main cobalt plant in Kolwezi, only...
Then consider the day that a tenant at 58 Garfield St., in a Harvard-owned building, awoke to find her apartment filled with "visitors" from Harvard's child day care center. They inspected the paint chips for lead poisoning, the closets for possible reconstruction, and informed her that her home might be converted to a day care center. She first thought their pronouncement was an unfounded rumor, until Harvard phoned to apologize for the oversight in the lack of notice, and verified the news...
...most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community groups, focus on the University's failure to pay taxes. But Harvard's tenants worry about their buildings' maintenance, or about possible eviction should Harvard decide to construct a new building, or convert a house into a day care center...
...unprecedented cooperation if this central office is willing to negotiate with us. Perhaps the city could stop viewing Harvard as a necessary evil and Harvard could stop viewing the city as a constant harassment. But if this office views itself as some cold and calculating center, running property for profit, it could be trouble," Wylie adds...