Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People will interpret the question as an attempt to restrict Harvard expansion, she added. "They'll get an anti-Harvard contingent to vote for it, then beat us over the head with it," she said. "We've gotten people to write to city councilors, and they don't like it...
> An immediate and unusually sharp 1% rise, from 11% to 12%, in the discount rate, which is the interest the Federal Reserve charges to commercial banks that borrow funds from it. Since Federal Reserve rules require banks to keep a certain amount of money in reserve for every dollar in...
Until recently, Giscard was able to stay regally above the political fray, letting Barre run the country on a day-to-day basis and, conveniently, leaving him to take the heat for unpopular decisions. But now, says Jeanne Labrousse, director of the polling institute I.F.O.P.: "We have reached the point...
Waterhouse St. is outside the Red Line boundary for University expansion Harvard agreed to in a 1974 report to the community. At the time, Harvard officials promised that "neither Harvard University nor its agents will buy residential property in Cambridge until at least 1980" outside the boundaries.
The only strain between college expansion and neighborhood citizens seems to be MIT's development of 11 acres of land on Mass Ave, midway between MIT and Central Square.