Word: hilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news conference, Dukakis denied that he was attempting to put a gun to the Legislature's head by proposing a generous local aid increase, which is politically popular on Beacon Hill, linked to his tax package, which is politically unpopular...
...recommendations by the commission do have a catch, sort of. In exchange for the pay increase, it urges Congress to ban the lucrative speaking fees doled out by companies and lobbies interested in making friends on Capitol Hill. House members are allowed to pocket up to $26,850 in honorariums annually; Senators can keep $35,800. Last year Representatives took in an average of $12,000 in honorariums; for Senators, the median was $23,000. Skeptics warn that once the pay raise goes into effect, the pressure on Congress to do away with honorariums will inevitably tail...
...should be surprised that Harvard Real Estate had the old Gulf station on Mass. Ave. torn down during Christmas break, when opponents of the University's plans for a hotel there were not around to protest. Harvard pulled the same stunt in 1955, when it demolished Shady Hill, the much-loved old Norton mansion, during summer vacation. What astonishes me is the crassness with which the University thinks it can bulldoze informed and heartfelt reservations about its plans--reservations based on crucial issues of the urban environment, student and faculty working conditions, and the purpose of the University...
...Jordan, then a freshman at the University of North Carolina, nailed a 17-ft. jumper to win the school's first national championship in 25 years. Over the next two seasons, as accolades and awards poured in, Jordan maintained a healthy perspective. Dean Smith, the coach at Chapel Hill, had a lot to do with that. "Coach Smith challenged us on the court," says Jordan, "but also encouraged us in the classroom...
...might easily have picked up an ax and begun cutting down more tropical rain forest around his land on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He could have sold the timber from the tall laurel trees that shade the cacao bushes, then burned the dense virgin forest on the hill behind his farm. Then Bryant, like so many financially strapped small farmers in Latin America, could have sown pasture and sold the land to a cattle rancher. Within three or four years, one more small piece of the tropics would have vanished...