Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The mayor, who talks about Harvard and expansion a lot less than his colleagues, was the major driving force behind the city's involvement in a citizen's group lawsuit asking for an injunction against extension of the Red Line. Danehy is a neighborhood man at heart, and though he...
Restraining institutional expansion is another of her goals. Graham, who lives on Harvard's Western Ave. flank, advocates taking by eminent domain land that Cambridge's universities have not yet developed, adding she supports a recently-filed bill to rein in institutional growth.
Okun supports development of new housing on unused land, expansion of the city's tax base, and protection of the elderly from condominium conversion.
"Harvard is engaged in the rape of the city because their expansion threatens to ruin the traditional ethnic composition of this community," Mary Ellen Preusser, incumbent council candidate says.
"What do I think about university expansion? It should be stopped. Period. We've got to stop these giants from eating Cambridge up with their big bucks." Russell declares. "They're encroaching, they're causing the housing shortage, and they're causing the rent problems and the rising prices," he...