Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all textbook populists, Vellucci portrays himself as fighting a slew of institutions. He says, "There's an organized effort by the condominium converters to defeat me." Harvard has been his most popular nemesis. "You go to Harvard on scholarship? You know it's all blood money from the oil...
For instance, Courtney says, "condominium explosion" must be curbed. He believes that expansion of condominium apartments, along with the growth of university building, is forcing poorer tenants into "dead end" neighborhoods.
Russell opposes hiring a police commissioner, supports further development of Kendall Square, and opposes Harvard expansion on Observatory Hill. He stresses fiscal responsibility as the most important issue facing the city.
Burns, however, may have come on unnecessarily strong; the Administration started the squabble by ineptness rather than intention. In order to reply more fully to a reporter's routine question about monetary policy, a White House aide tacked up in the pressroom excerpts from an Oct. 4 speech by Charles...
The source and other critics have also claimed that the department's roughly fourfold expansion since the late '60s "creates a mechanical approach to teaching--if students are to develop their own ideas for planning, they have to be able to work closely with the faculty." Although the faculty-student...