Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of the increase in consulting according to some professors, because it pays less than many other schools, knowing that faculty members always have the outside option. "Over the decades, Harvard salaries have lagged behind other places. Because of the prestige, there's the expectation that you will convert it into the coin outside," Zvi Griliches, chairman of the Economics Department says...
...enacted, Harvard would have to go hat in hand to the city's planning board each time it wanted to build a new building or convert an existing one to institutional use in a residential neighborhood. The permits will be hard to get (in cases of highly "incompatible" uses like laboratories they will be impossible to obtain). When they are granted, it will surely be only after bargaining, and it seems likely deals will have to be struck to gain the assent of city leaders and neighbors. "I think Harvard recognizes that the era of being able to ride...
...University is considering asking the city for permission to convert a large Mt. Auburn St. apartment building from rental housing to some other use. Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), said yesterday...
...symptoms: eyes focused in the middle distance, a smile as wide as a convert's and a telltale glint of metal covering the ears. The body may undulate with faint intimations of a boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback...
...adopted, the ordinance would require that any institution seeking to build a new facility or convert a building to institutional use in a residential area would require a city permit. Many uses would be flatly prohibited in certain areas...