Word: encroachers
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...attorney tried to stop institutional development on Centre Street at the West Roxbury/Jamaica Plain/Roslindale border. When Joyce Kilmer Park and its nine acres of open space were sold for a new institutional facility in 1956, Harvard’s attorney argued that institutional development at the site would encroach on open space at the Arboretum’s adjacent parcel...
Forty years ago, when the city examined the possibility of building a public high school across from Forest Hills Station and adjacent to the Arboretum, it was Harvard that objected, saying that any such institutional development at its doorstep would encroach on open space at the Arboretum next door...
...changes in environmental cues--things like ice cover, temperature and salinity--are reflected in other natural events. The growth rates of algae and phytoplankton change. Salmon are migrating to western Arctic waters from the northern Pacific. There is concern that Atlantic cod will encroach in the east and compete with the smaller Arctic cod, which have thrived in frigid climates with their special proteins that prevent freezing of the blood. Meanwhile, the retracting ice makes it harder for ringed seals to find breeding grounds and for polar bears to hunt...
...continue to use the terror-fighting tools that were first passed in the panicked aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Although we recognize the necessity of taking steps to fight terrorism, parts of the Patriot Act overstep reasonable bounds. This sort of legislation makes way for more laws that encroach on personal liberties, and it marks a dangerous precedent. The intention of the Patriot Act—to protect the citizens of the United States—is a sincere one. Of course, security is a continuum that comes, to some extent, as a tradeoff with privacy; a nation that...
...mayor, who is also a city councillor—creates the budget for all public schools, which then goes before the City Council for approval. Several councillors supported the general idea of school accountability before the City Council, while worrying that Galluccio’s audit proposal would encroach on the School Committee’s sovereignty. The proposal “is not something we should be pushing at this time, if we intend to cooperate [with the School Committee] as we look toward various candidacies for mayor—including my own,” said Davis...