Word: gifford
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...earlier hearings Gladys P. Gifford, president of the defense fund, called O'Connell's argument an "ingenious way to get around applying for a permit by piggybacking...
...Gifford added that a decision to allow thepermit to stand would set a dangerous precedent,allowing a "freeway for McDonald's" to open upoutlets in the Square...
Under current city zoning ordinances, fast food is barred from Harvard Square unless the owner of the outlet obtains a special permit from the city. Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, insisted that Duarte Carvalho, who hopes to open a Dunkin' Donuts in the space recently vacated by The Country's Best Yogurt (TCBY), has obtained the permit unfairly...
...Gifford, who says her group's work to preservethe "diversity and appeal [of the Square], keep itfrom becoming like Everywhere, America,"vehemently disagreed...
...March, John Kingery, an 82-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease, was found abandoned in his wheelchair at an Idaho dog-racing track. Last week his daughter Sue Gifford, 40, was charged with kidnapping him from his Oregon nursing home and dumping him in Idaho. Kingery's case drew national attention to the phenomenon of "grandpa dumping": stressed-out adult children abandoning their ailing parents. Kingery is now in Kentucky being taken care of by relatives...