Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the area is poor," Alstein says. "Traditionally, a condomiumium in middle Cambridge sells for more than an equivalent unit in East Cambridge or Cambridgeport," Alstein says. The area is very desirable, he says, "because the closer you get to Harvard, the better...
...when it comes to squash, Harvard rules Dartmouth and other teams like a king rules his court. While some viewed its loss to Princeton as the end of a reign, the Crimson moved a step closer to it's seventh straight Ivy and national championships with a 7-2 victory against the Big Green yesterday...
...people have an adverse reaction to Jeff's bizarre service for a number of other reasons too. They prefer to bury or cremate their pets, he thinks, because they don't want to be reminded that their own deaths are looming closer. Jeff's natural customers seem to be yuppie types who not only prefer to deny death, but would also like to deny all that is unpleasant in life. Most of those people have heard about Jeff's service through stories done on him in newspapers from as far away as Britain, and on television and radio shows...
Joshua Sharfstein's impassioned essay on animal and human rights in the January 18 issue of The Crimson deserves closer consideration, for it contains within it the seeds of a compassion--and intelligence--that transcend the deeply flawed nature of the article's assertions...
...accepts the good, together with the bad, until time and circumstances allow for the attainment of the better. While common neo-conservatives mouth similar views, the humanitarian conservatives accept that people must move actively to bring those times and circumstances about. It is this belief that brings true conservatives closer to liberal reformers than to their heirs in the now-warped conservative tradition...