Word: eviction
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...Graduate School of Design bought in the 1970s with the intention of converting into offices.The University began emptying the building by leaving apartments vacant when their tenants left. By February of 1981, the building was empty—except for two tenants whom Harvard asked the city to evict.“People were being literally driven out of their neighborhoods by Harvard expansion,” says David Sullivan, a 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School who was elected to the City Council in 1979.Harvard’s authority as a landlord was drawn from the Dover Amendment...
Burner, who wanted to run in a district that stretches from wealthy Seattle suburbs to farmland at the base of Mount Rainier, passed muster. Now the two are bonded on a historic adventure--the Democrats' increasingly promising quest to evict Republicans from the leadership suites they have occupied for the past dozen years. "This Microsoft mom is going to be part of us taking back the Congress," Emanuel said hoarsely at a rally in a Mercer Island, Wash., community center last week...
...move into the house they had just bought. The house is zoned for single family residences-and the city decided this family does not fit their legal definition of family. The couple pleaded with the city council to change the law. The city said no, and intends to evict. When this news broke, many assumed Black Jack must be one of those white, religious conservative towns in the Bible Belt. But Black Jack turned out to be a suburb of St. Louis, and it?s 70% African American. Their enforcement of the zoning doesn't seem to be motivated...
...since it began serving meals in December, the place has been threatened by jaded Manhattanites skeptical of the valet parking (real New Yorkers walk), by restaurant critics who seem eager to see Batali finally stumble and by its own landlord, who is trying to close the place and evict its owners. I haven't even gotten to the part where the Hudson River flooded Del Posto, but the point is, this is a lot more fun than Don Giovanni...
...College plans to evict nearly all student groups from offices in Harvard Yard and force them to move to the Radcliffe Quadrangle, sparking an immediate outcry from group leaders...