Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Harvard expansion policies were slowed by the strike of '69 and the rent-control and tenant activism which partly derived from it. The University Road apartments, and issue in the strike, have remained standing for 20 years. But Harvard's negative role in the Cambridge housing market has continued...
Hospitals throughout Massachusetts face a loss of more than $500 million in state funds because of the current state budget crisis, according to the budget proposal. Medicare payments for the state will be reduced by more than $100 million in the proposed federal budget, the plan also says.
Despite an initial period of fear and confusion. the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) crisis has not led to the expected political backlash against gays and lesbians, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D-Mass.) said at a Science Center speech Saturday night.
So younger artists squat. Some work in crumbling tenements scheduled for $ demolition, dank shells with tangles of extension cords carrying bootleg electricity up their gapped stairwells. Here they agonize about the "spiritual crisis" with which glasnost has confronted Soviet artists -- the sudden conversion of "dissident" art from a talisman to...
But Epps says he still defends the University's position in dealing with the protest. "The legacy of the crisis is in the way Harvard responded and opened itself to a consideration of the criticisms," he says.