Word: developers
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Three weeks after Harvard threatened to sue the city over a new zoning ordinance that limits its ability to develop the former Gulf station site on Mass. Ave., the University still has not decided whether to take legal action...
Although the University initially planned to build a hotel on the Gulf site, President Derek C. Bok this spring announced that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) would be allowed to develop the land for academic purposes. FAS has not announced a plan for the land, but possible alternatives include a library, an office building or a hotel that could be converted for academic...
...combatting smog, Bush conveniently opted to develop alternative-fuel cars in the future rather than move quickly to require costly reductions in tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until...
...against his self- effacing grain. Trained as an architect at M.I.T., he took up furniture making after studying with spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, India, during the 1930s. "The negation of the ego," says Nakashima, "is central in Indian philosophy. If you can negate your ego, you can develop." During World War II, Nakashima advanced his craft in an Idaho detention camp for Japanese Americans. There he learned about prejudice. He also learned woodworking from a fellow internee who had been trained as a carpenter in Japan...
...body, the measure will take effect in October 1990. It will probably cut the estimated < 195,000 cars that jam the capital daily by only 6% to 8%, but could bring in $50 million a year in revenues. After deducting enforcement costs, the remaining monies would be used to develop mass transit...