Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I went to college, the neighborhood was so rough that nobody graduated summs. Lemme read you my speech. See how much respect you lack for it. It's called "No Respect #19," and it's based on a routine which put me through college, although it didn't garner me much Respect, especially in light of the neighborhood and all. Stole the hubcaps off my mother-in-law, who was so old that she thought the mailman was just the Ford version of the Sedan de Ville...
Robert J. Burns, acting director of the University parking office, says the requirement that all undergraduates park their cars at the Business School is a rule set "long ago" by the Council of Deans. Like many other Harvard institutions, the rule has continued through the yeas; and Jesse Garner, a staff assistant in the parking office, says, "we (the parking office) can't really change policy although it;s obvious that something needs to be done. I guess no student has shaken the tree hard enough...
Also this winter, the masters at Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop Houses complained to the parking office about the number of cars parking on the grassy area near the three Houses. Garner says the masters called the area "an eyesore," because cars had driven over the grass leaving large ruts and muddy patches on rainy days...
Complaints from people who have reserved spaces around the University rose during the winter, Garner said, as did the incidence of cars blocking fire lanes and parking outside of their assigned lots. Buns says the fire lane violations "really infuriate the fire chief when he drives around" and when the heavy snows of February limited parking space, many of the fire lanes became jammed with cars...
...result, the Planning Office drew up a temporary solution--setting logs around the field to keep cars off the grass. Garner says this is "technically a temporary change which just keeps the cars off the field." He adds that the Planning Office has not yet drawn up a permanent plan, which might involve sinking curbstones or a similar type of barrier to keep cars off the grass...