Word: hike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadhead rockers and blues musicians here. Doors stay open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. Passim, in the alley between the two halves of the Harvard Coop, doubles as a restaurant by day and features folk artists and acoustic guitarists by night. If you don't mind a short hike up Cambridge Street to Inman Square, you can hear live jazz and blues at the 1369 Club...
Just about all of these clubs serve alcohol. The recent drinking age hike to 21 will keep those underage outside. But, because of the bill's attached grandfather clause, 20-year-olds can get in with a Massachusetts I.D. Some clubs either don't care or don't know about this state identification complexity, so try to get in even if you're not a real Bay Stater...
...project -- the controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc was understandable. Commissioned by the General Services Administration at a cost of more than $175,000, the unbroken 12-ft.-high wall of rust-patinaed steel stretches 120 ft. across Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, forcing thousands of pedestrians to hike around it. Since the installation of Tilted Arc in 1981, more than 7,000 office workers have signed petitions demanding the work's removal. During a series of public hearings last March, numerous artists and critics responded that to relocate Arc was to sacrifice artistic expression to public whim...
...approving budgets that would save $56 billion next year (leaving the deficit at a still staggering $170 billion), but they did so in different ways. The Senate cut social programs and imposed a one- year freeze on the cost of living increase for Social Security while preserving an inflation hike for defense. The House last week voted for a package that makes fewer cuts in social programs and none in Social Security, but freezes defense spending. Reconciling these differences at a House-Senate conference will be difficult, and each side might be tempted simply to give in to the spending...
...Massachusetts Legislature will later this month debate how much to increase state aid to college students. Currently on the table are two proposals, Governor Michael S. Dukakis's $5 million hike and the $25 million raise of Sen. Gerard D'Amico's (D-Worcester...