Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litany of city complaints against the University include the eviction of tenants in buildings on Mellon, Ware and Sumner Streets and a low-interest loan program for faculty members that city officials fear will dry up the already near-barren Cambridge housing market...
...encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
...unemployment lists to install the solar systems. In addition, they have given all their orders for solar equipment to small businesses that are being bought up by oil giants like Atlantic Richfield, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil. This is a particularly ominous trend as these companies have an interest in seeing that solar technology is not marketed until their oil, coal, and nuclear resources are exhausted...
...Student interest is certainly as important as faculty interest," Solomon added. She said anyone interested in proposing a course on women's studies to Core subcommittees would be able to receive funds for the necessary research...
...cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. The customs officer let him pass without hindrance unaware that Roosevelt had just received instructions from Allen Dulles, the new head of the CIA, to topple the regime of the Iranian nationalist Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq. The fledgeling CIA had taken considerable interest in Iran during the preceding years, as previously unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran, Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the chief of the Agency, sent a secret memo to President Truman on June 27, 1950. Hillenkoetter warned Truman that although the USSR would not attack Iran directly...