Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tent camp on his land for the Salvadorans. Ramirez says U.S. Army personnel have twice opened valves to his water lines, causing his meat-packing plant to remain idle for two days because of inadequate water pressure. Green Berets visiting the ammunition dump have left open the cattle gate, allowing the animals to roam onto a main road. He claims the presence of more than 1,000 armed soldiers has disrupted work at the ranch and intimidated employees and their families, some 1,500 people in all. Most worrisome of all, he says, the appropriation of his property "makes...
...problem, it seemed, stemmed from physical limitations of the main traffic entry to the Yard--the gate on Mass. Ave. behind Widener Library. Big trucks couldn't fir through it. And Harvard needs lots of big trucks. So they periodically opened up Johnson Gate--the so-called front door to the Yard--to let them in. But careful and through studies revealed that two open gates meant more traffic than one. The answer they said was to open only one gate, which of course meant closing the Widener gate and opening the Johnson Gate full time...
...gatehouse talks did not start smoothly. The commission did not feel that the traffic was a problem, but it was unable to persuade University officials. The University first wanted to simply add a gatehouse directly to the gate--similar to the setup behind Widener. But they could not persuade commission members who thought that would be unfair tampering with antique material...
...seems like a simplified case of the Best and the Brightest using intricate formulas and training to create a project that, to the average Joe, at least is wrong. The historical commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter. Scott who says he himself is pleased with the final product concedes that some might not be so enamored...
Four minutes. Nothing. At three minutes to the hour, a blood-red Mercedes screeches through the gate, careering into a reserved parking place. Out pops a 5-ft. 3-in., 99-lb. woman who, with her porcelain complexion, delicate features and glistening black hair, might pass for a Kabuki doll. As she scampers along on 2-in. wooden platform shoes, her mouth is al eady moving faster than her feet...