Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitzgerald says now he was confused about his position all summer, before he decided to go public in favor of the power plant at the last hearing. "I listened to everybody and then I sat back and asked myself, 'Self, do I want this power plant?' And I said yes, because the power plant is linked to the housing, and the people want that housing." Fitzgerald has no love affair with Harvard, and he confides that some administrators at Harvard warned him that even if they didn't get local support, the University might go ahead and build its power...
Although Murphy and Grady are both in favor of the housing projects, neither buys the contention that the homes are contingent on the plant's construction. Grady calls the linkup blackmail, while Murphy contends that because Edison is supplying electricity to the housing, only a small steam unit is needed for the housing...
...weeks, after some more perfunctory investigation, the BRA will probably rule in favor of the power plant and grant the zoning variances that are needed for the plant's immediate construction. It will probably do so in part because it wants the housing project, but mostly because those in opposition to the power plant don't carry much political clout in City Hall...
Some people have very definite ideas on what is wrong with Harvard. Robert D. Lee '78 is one of them. Lee thinks the most important issue before his group is the student-Faculty relationship, and he believes that the task force will resolve in favor of a warmer attitude on the part of the Faculty...
...ACSR is made up of student, faculty, administration and alumni members and, since its inception, has recommended that Harvard vote in favor of a number of shareholder resolutions calling upon major corporations to improve their "social behavior" in many different areas--strip mining, pollution, equal employment, foreign involvement, military production...