Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time last spring it appeared that the CCA had an odds-on shot at the fifth seat. Independent incumbent Kevin Crane '72 announced he wasn't running for another term; CCA leaders announced a slate of candidates that looked stronger than any in recent history. It included not only the four incumbents--David Sullivan, Francis H. Duehay '55, David Wylie, and Saundra Graham--but also three challengers given a chance of winning seats--Alice Wolf (who gained a record number of votes in her last school committee race), Wendy Abt (who ran a strong race for State Senate and enjoys...
...Questions", a ten-ton modern sculpture made of rusted steel was recently installed in front of the student union amid a crowd of 100 students who opposed its purchase and gathered to jeer as a crane lowered the sculpture into place. One student, trying to deface the work, broke off a piece of metal which later was welded back into place...
Councilor Kevin Crane, who offered the motion opposing the name change, said he did so to help Harvard Square merchants. The Harvard Square Businessmen's Association sent the council 21 statements of protest, a message HSBA attorney Ann Thomas called "very strong...
...Yankee craftsmanship is involved in BIW's success. The yard is the only one in the U.S. that combines modular construction with extensive "pre-outfitting." That means that whole sections of ships are built as near-complete units, fitted with piping and electrical equipment. Then, with a giant crane, the sections are joined to make the vessel. The system, now used by the Swedes and Japanese, is faster and less expensive than the conventional one of building entire hulls first, then stuffing them with their innards...
Wildlife groups began bitterly calling upon Montana Governor Ted Schwinden to create a state pesticide advisory council to keep the department of agriculture from any further impetuous or ill-advised spraying. Endangered species like the bald eagle, peregrine falcon and whooping crane, they noted, are especially vulnerable to pesticides. Grumbled Biologist Lowell McEwen of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "They are poisoning everything under the sun down there...