Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct this situation in the Charles and to solve similar problems in the greater Boston area, the MDC began a $104 million sewer expansion program in 1954. The project called for a three to five-fold increase in the capacity of trunk lines and the construction of two new treatment plants in Boston Harbor. Although a scandal in 1959 interrupted the program for two years, it should be completed sometime in 1965. After 1965, the Charles and other nearby rivers should be pollution-free...
...clearly disconcerting to the Tories. Last week's Gallup poll, taken before the Labor Party conference, narrowed Labor's lead over the Tories from 13.5% to 11%, and a decrease in the Don't-Knows column suggested that wavering Conservative voters were returning to the fold. Nonetheless, if Labor's plurality holds up at the polls, Labor could have a margin of more than 200 seats in Parliament. The Liberals, who plan to run 400 candidates in the election, may prove an additional threat to the government, since they usually capture two Tory votes to every...
...gather the departed readers back into the fold, New York's dailies are trying everything. Hearst's evening Journal-American has announced a $2,000,000 expansion program-most of which, according to the paper's commuter train ads, will go into a new Sunday magazine and a TV program guide. The Daily News is bidding for new readers, presumably bilingual, over the city's Spanish-language radio stations. The New York Herald Tribune is busy preparing new supplements for its Sunday edition. But no one expects the road back to be short or easy. Says...
...package containing the plans Luckman had made as his final school project?for a monastery. "For 20 years I've had my eye on this guy," wrote Pereira to Luckman. "That's why I've saved this. I think he's mature enough to return to the fold. How about...
Many Tories who voted Liberal out of dissatisfaction with the government will undoubtedly return to the fold at the next general election. Nonetheless, the drop in Tory strength in a Tory stronghold was a sobering confirmation that the party will have a rough time in the national elections, which, as a result, will probably not be held until spring...