Word: disrepair
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Triple deckers: The three-story townhouses that the majority of people in Mission Hill inhabit. Harvard tore down many of these in order to make room for the power plant and is letting others fall into disrepair so it has an excuse to rip them down and build another hospital...
...Schmidt want to start spending their Monday nights at city council, they should begin soon--the crucial vote may be on how the institutional expansion guidelines are to be drawn, and that could take place late next fall, not much time to mend some fences that have fallen into disrepair. "For years everyone on the city council has been abusing Harvard verbally--it will be interesting to see how much was show, and how many will vote to really stick it to them," one city councilor, who asked not to be identified, said. "Even if they do start politicking...
...have been strenuously engaged in trying to improve conditions in the building, which had seriously deteriorated in the decade since Harvard purchased the property. Our efforts have been met with firm resistance on the part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would...
...first time, the Heps will be held at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City, because of the disrepair of the course. This year's site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania should be more to the Crimson's liking. Saucon Valley Fields, Lehigh's home course and the location of the nationals in two weeks, offers plenty of free-running space, an arrangement that should not provide the problems of Van Cortlandt or Cornell's home course...
...house of literature is in its usual state of disrepair. Poetry is depressed, the novel remains in the shadow of James, Joyce and Proust, and an aging Tennessee Williams is still the greatest living playwright. But wait: there is a light burning in the attic window. Biography is alive, well, and scribbling away, better than ever. The banners may not be waving in college English departments and the critics may not be cheering quite as much as they should, but we are now in a golden age of biography. Indeed, all but half a dozen of the greatest biographies...