Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his love of rhetoric, many Cambridge community leaders argue, Vellucci has helped to create an atmosphere where Cambridge can demand more from Harvard, whether it is a building for an experimental school or athletic facilities for high school teams...
...more apiece. To make the conversion even more popular, a high percentage of Cambridge's housing stock is old and often in need of major repairs. By converting, the owner can unload his property without major expense and still cash in on the laws of supply and demand...
There is statistical evidence to support Graham's argument. Household rents in Cambridge increased 70 per cent during the 1960s when Harvard had Harvard had the money to buy up large portions of the city's residential areas. Rents skyrocketed, largely because there was demand for land, and little available housing. Harvard's familiar practice of land-banking--buying up land with apartment buildings and then razing them to build university facilities--is another sign of the scarcity of land in Cambridge. "There is little open space in Cambridge, so we are forced to buy housing as sites for potential...
Students and administrators voiced a greater demand for campus security last week, following the rape of two students in the Leverett Towers two weeks...
...union will continue to demand that Harvard hire more armed patrolmen, instead of unarmed student guards, he added. Letteri would not say whether the union will raise the issue of increased hiring during its ongoing contract negotiations with the University...