Word: center
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...University bought the land from the Fly Club in 1956 with the intention of building a student center on it, but the club has continued to use it and pays maintenance costs. Since the purchase Harvard has paid over $50,000 in property taxes on the 13,000 square foot...
...other semi-final game Sunday, center Dave Cowens poured in 26 points, and Paul Silas tipped in a decisive rebound with 24 seconds left in the game to lift the Boston Celtics to a 99-94 triumph over the Cavaliers. The Celts lead the series...
...things really began to boom Kroc found he needed more than inventiveness, or even his "special sauce" to run the operation. He therefore established Hamburger Central, the wall-less office near Chicago where Kroc and his burger consultants could set the party line for franchisers. In the center of one floor, a cone-shaped think tank, containing a circular water bed and a device which projects the user's alpha waves onto a screen, facilitates important decisions. (Employees may meet together within the womb-like room, unless they are of different sexes). Hamburger Central directives are communicated to the "professors...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, was also asked to comment for the article; he told The Quarterly he "viewed the colonies with horror." Wald called Harvard's Le Corbusier-designed Carpenter Center "a goldfish bowl--just the thing for an artist." He described Paolo Solari, the Arizona architect, as "that gifted man, making bony structures in the American desert." Wald's point is that this kind of dehumanizing architecture is getting us ready for space colonies, like...
...week, as strident campaign posters blossomed on walls and telephone poles all over Italy and politicians caucused to plot national election strategies, San Gennaro was not the nation's only leading indicator of disaster. The election was called one year ahead of schedule because a succession of weak center-left governments had been unable to solve the country's festering economic and social problems. It is an election that few politicians really want now. The early reading was that the Communists would make parliamentary gains equal to or larger than their already sizable increase in power in regional...