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Holy Cross, which has a natural grass field, is another possible site, but Bertagna said distance is a major drawback. Holy Cross is located in Worcester, a half-hour drive from Cambridge...
...these standards, the 196 sq. mi. Atlanta area emerges as the best all-round place to live in America. It is ranked No. 1 in transportation and high in such categories as health care, schools, cultural facilities and weather. Atlanta's major drawback, according to Places Rated, is its crime problem-it has a murder rate "that is twice the national average for metro areas." The Washington, D.C.Maryland-Virginia area scores second in all-round desirability, though it, too, suffers from a high crime rate. Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C., is the third most livable area, largely because...
...Cambridge municipal elections. The proportional representation scheme weights votes, allowing--should most of them choose to support a single candidate with a number one vote--members of most minority groups to elect one of their number to the council. Our scheme also avoids another possible drawback to the special seat plan, since we do not assume that a group like the BSA or the AAA represents all Blacks or Asians on this campus. Those groups are, however, the best organized minority voices on campus, and as such, should be allowed non-voting seats on the council, from which to lobby...
...main drawback to Uniqey is its plush price tag: about $200,000 for a 500-room hotel. But hotel executives predict that the traditional key may become as rare as bellboys with round red caps...
These are the equivalents of leaky pens, misplaced notes, carbon paper inserted backward-all the inevitable vexations of the writing trade. They may be annoying, but they are not enough to turn off the current of this newest electronic revolution. Even the biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will...