Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University has upped the rent for all commercial space in Holyoke Center, a Harvard-owned building complex, from 34 to as much as 150 per cent, a spokesman for Harvard's real estate office said yesterday...
Harvard built the Holyoke Center complex in the early 1960s with an eye toward housing the administration. The University took control of commercial buildings already on the land, and put final touches on the complex...
...complex dispute between the police administration and the union representing Harvard's police officers has thus far been a cautious but discouragingly slow treatment of a pressing question. Although the Harvard Police Association's dissatisfaction with the reorganization efforts of David L. Gorski, chief of University Police, has occupied center stage since contract negotiations between the two sides began last January, efforts to resolve the question have produced little progress. In the meantime, the 40 Harvard police officers who have been working without a contract since January 1 have not been able to advance their claims for increased salary...
...center of the dispute is the union's claim that Gorski's drive to improve the force's efficiency by increasing the size of each officer's beat and instituting a de facto freeze on hiring has lowered morale on the force. Union officials say there is a "deep mistrust of the chief of police" among union members as a result of the changes, and would like to see a reduction in working hours to make up for the increased workload. One union spokesman suggested that Gorski's reorganization might be part of a larger University plan "to rid itself...
...will inevitably be those who assume that they agree on everything. And since Lancelot utters enough reactionary claptrap to offend everyone, Percy is likely to get a lot of angry mail, particularly from women. Says Lancelot: "What the poor dears discovered is the monstrous truth lying at the very center of life: that their happiness and the meaning of life itself is to be assaulted...