Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilkes candidacy--her ability to raise money--has proved that there is at least some semblance of such a voting bloc. And, with the organizing efforts of the Condominium Network and the continued attention of well-financed real estate interests, it is unlikely such sentiment will disappear until the next election. There will be more test cases like the 1572 Mass Ave and Linnaean St. controversies that have drawn large crowds to the city council chambers in recent months...
...school committee) will be filled. should one council seat stop holding a liberal derriere and end up under a more conservative posterior, the following things might well occur: rent control, the program perhaps most responsible--for better or for worse--for the way Cambridge looks today could gradually disappear; condominium conversion could start to boom again as it did in the late 1970s; strict zoning aimed at neighborhood preservation could be loosened; and the administration set up by former city manager James L. Sullivan could be dismantled or weakened. That's why people care, on both sides. That...
Many observers thought Wylie would disappear in 1979; instead, Mary Ellen Preusser went down the tubes. Preusser began her reelection campaign many months ago, but it is unclear how successful she has been. Though she has mounted a visible effort, especially in West Cambridge and in politically unpredictable Cambridgeport, Preusser has been hurt by two factors: her biggest issue, university expansion, was largely settled last summer when the city council finally adopted zoning laws to restrict the growth of tax-exempt institutions. And the plethora of women candidates will fragment the feminist vote...
...plot sounds like an ultra-British detective story. A collection of rare books initially valued at about $2 million, including a 1638 edition of Galileo's Discorsi, disappear from London's University College Library. A "Dr. French" approaches Quaritch's, a rare book dealer in London, with about 20 books that he wants to trade for a medieval manuscript. Quaritch's notices tracings of University College Library stamps and alerts the library. About the same time, librarians checking on the volumes discover that padlocks on the appropriate cabinets have been changed. All told, about 267 books...
...larger than just the financial survival of the Watkins Glen corporation. If a town like Watkins Glen corporation. If a town like Watkins Glen that has supported racing for two decades is suddenly unable to continue to host a Formula One event will other racing organizations, and other races, disappear from the international auto racing scene as well? Franzese thinks...