Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John R. Pitkin, chair of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, said an inn on the Gulf Station site would give the area a more commercial flavor...
...think the community now has said, 'If you don't have any plans, then why give up your vote?'" said Councillor Saundra Graham, who abstained from the vote...
Investors had expected the junk-bond market to soften during an economic downturn. But they have been taken aback that defaults are rising and junk- bond prices are plunging during a time of relatively stable growth. The implication is that any serious industrial slump could give the junk-bond market a full-fledged nervous breakdown...
...bills mount, many parents suspect that institutions are kicking up their fees at will, knowing that families will pay almost anything to give their child the cachet of a Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
...where Western logic ends." In the early '80s several Japanese firms plunged enthusiastically into fuzzy research. By 1985 Hitachi had installed the technology's most celebrated showpiece: a subway system in Sendai, about 200 miles north of Tokyo, that is operated by a fuzzy computer. Not only does it give an astonishingly smooth ride (passengers do not need to hang on to straps), but it is also 10% more energy efficient than systems driven by human conductors...