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...scheduled to petition the board for permission to demolish the vacant houses at a hearing scheduled for March 16. MIT's lawyer, Scott Lewis, asked the board to consider both the violations and the university's petition for permission to destroy the buildings last night. But the board decided to wait to consider the removal petition until its regularly scheduled meeting next month...
Brattle Square Associates wants to demolish the Casablanca restaurant's current site to make room for the complex. The restaurant would relocate--murals and all--to the front of the same building...
Founded twelve years ago by feminist activists, the First Women's Bank of New York has helped demolish several old-fashioned notions, like the idea that women are not well suited to handle money. But the bank is not above appealing to stereotypical womanly values. It now offers fine sable coats, in lieu of interest, to big-time customers. A deposit of $50,000 for five years earns a Canadian sable worth $25,000, or putting down $100,000 brings a $60,000 Russian coat. The furs are the equivalent of an 11 1/4% interest rate. The offer strikes many...
...spokesman for the group, William O'Leary of East Boston, read a statement demanding several concessions from MIT, including the right to renovate three gutted houses next to the camp. MIT has announced plans to demolish these buildings, which have been vacant for 14 years according to the Tent City activists...
...Soviets claim to be. Gorbachev has called for reducing conventional arms to a level of "reasonable sufficiency." Said he: "In the European building, every apartment is entitled to protect itself against burglars, but only in such a way as not to demolish the next-door apartment." His top propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev, is even more forceful about cutting conventional forces. "We are prepared for the most radical steps along these lines," he told New Perspectives Quarterly, a California-based political journal. Encouraging words -- but in more than 13 years of negotiations with the West over mutual troop reductions, the Soviets have...