Word: grass
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This week another of the companies in which Harvard has a substantial interest was brought to court by a grass-roots group of citizens who oppose its plans for a new power plant...
Open-pit mining methods, like those used to get copper in Butte, Mont., may also be tested, probably at one of the Colorado tracts. Great earth-moving machines would first peel back the sagebrush and grass over thousands of acres, next remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than...
Vice President Hall's pronouncements from on high are particularly distressing to those of us who remember back even four years ago. Administrative insensitivity and lack of grass-roots awareness had something to do with the level of bitterness our community experienced between 1968 and 1970. Similarly, I am not at all sure that Mr. Hall's proposals would violate existing room contracts. Nonetheless, his lamentable dismissal of the procedural premise in the name of necessity certainly ignores an important lesson concerning the integrity of procedures that some of us tried extremely hard to inculcate into our students three...
Diana K. McGuire, landscape architect for the University, said yesterday that other projects the committee is working on include the planting of more trees and grass along the campus riverfront and designing, with the House committees, the layout and planting of house gardens...