Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...podium away from the BRA during a hearing on the environmental impact of the power plant, and never gave it up, to the joy of about 150 antipower plant Mission Hill residents in attendance. Grady's feelings on the power plant are simple. He sees the battle lines drawn not against a pro-power plant faction but against those who want to turn his predominantly working-class neighborhood into an upper class research center. As he said at one hearing this summer...
Most members of the center are neither Harvard faculty members or post-doctoral researchers or fund-raisers, however; many more or less permanent members are drawn from other Boston area social science faculties, while visitors for one or two-year periods come from other universities--usually during a paid sabbatical since the center's finances allow few stipends to visiting scholars, no matter how expert or promising. For their travelling the visitors are rewarded, occupying cubicles right down the corridor from luminaries such as Abram Bergson and Marshal Goldman, experts on the Soviet economy, and even Ulam himself...
...Drawn together by their problems, the parents of gays have formed organizations in a number of cities. Sarah Montgomery...
...this feeling been described with such elegant despair as that expressed by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France: "The present world crisis . . . is not just a passing perturbation but in reality represents a permanent change. If we examine the major graphic curves that are drawn for the future by the phenomena of our times, you see that all of these curves lead to catastrophe...
Private marriage contracts are legally ambiguous, even when they are drawn up by lawyers, signed by witnesses and properly notarized. Contracts or no, courts will usually not intervene in a marriage or enforce any private contract provision that differs with state marriage law. Thus a wife whose marriage contract waives alimony and grants her husband the right to have extramarital affairs could conceivably win a divorce on the grounds of adultery and get her alimony too. But contracts between unmarried lovers are not limited by established marriage law. If a couple wants to make sure that their agreement has legal...