Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's impending decision about Black Rock--where Con Ed plans to build a pumped storage power plant on New York's Hudson River--has taken on increasing importance in the light of recent events. Legal door after legal door has slammed shut on environmentalist efforts to block the project, and few remain to be tried. Strident action by the University at this time could make Harvard a decisive adversary to Con Ed's plans...
...environmental and donor responsibility issues are clear. It is equally clear that Con Ed will not give up without a fight, and the utility may be counting on the University's lack of stamina to ensure that no new legal battles rage...
University opposition to condemnation proceedings--which would likely be begun by Con Ed should Harvard deny the utility its land--would admittedly be long and expensive. But financial support would undoubtedly be forthcoming for such a battle, and the time consumed would be short compared with that needed to undo the environmental damage that the Storm King project might cause...
NCLC guards had been searching everyone who entered the third floor room at PBH before the meeting began. "We expected De Mau Mau to come," Linda Bankes, a member of NCLA, said yesterday. Bankes said that the black group had violently disrupted their meetings before. She cited another con- frontation about four weeks ago at a public meeting at UMass at Boston...
Bobby's latest con has run its brief course. He automatically called for a rematch, insisting, "I feel I would do better next time." But his heart was hardly in it. Billie Jean's initial response: "Give me 24 hours and a beer to think it over...