Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that while residents claimed they were worried about traffic and parking, "I think the real source of their antagonism lay in a sense of turf and in a deeply held though often unarticulated conviction that the area should be preserved for academic use rather than for the general public." Other observers are less kind. One high-level state source, who was party to the conflict, says a group of "Brattle St. Brahmins who think the rest of the world should defer to them" kept the pot boiling...
...splitting the institution. Their recommendation--eventually adopted by both the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Harvard--called for keeping the archives in Harvard Square and moving the museum into an existing building in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Meanwhile, everybody waited for an environmental impact report prepared by the government's General Services Administration...
...centralized energy grid is a plague to dairy farmers of west central Minnesota. As George Crocker of the General Assembly to Stop the Power Line (GASP) puts it, "Starting almost a decade ago, the industry started to get ideas about the western coal front. As soon as the plans materialized, the people started fighting a struggle, which has taken many forms for almost eight years...
...phone company rewired Hurlbut telephones as part of a general renovation project before school began this fall...
...options were considered: doing nothing (the preferred course of the State and Defense departments); attacking the sanctuaries with South Vietnamese forces only (my recommendation); and using whatever forces were necessary to neutralize all of the base areas, including American combat forces, recommended by Ellsworth Bunker, our Ambassador in Saigon, General Creighton Abrams, our commander in Viet Nam. and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...