Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, locating oil to stake out for national security reasons would not be difficult. The government already owns much of the oil-rich land in the United States, as well as offshore sites. This property should be heralded as a public legacy--more patriotic grounds for a federal company. The people should oversee and benefit from their legacy rather than continuing today's practice of leasing it away at favorable terms to the private oil bureaucracies. The federal government owns at least half of domestic natural resources, and the same figure probably holds for oil. Ralph Nader likes to tell...
...UNION PRESIDENT on the company's board of directors? That must be Germany, land of co-determination and 50 per cent worker representation on supervisory boards. No? Perhaps Sweden, social democracy, powerful labor movement. No? Let's start by eliminating the countries it couldn't possibly be--The United States. What do you mean, it is the United States. The Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Milton Friedman United States...
...familiar problem--defense--may plague the Crimson. With standout blueliner Jackie Hughes off trying to land a spot with the touring U.S. Olympic troupe and sophomore Mitch Olsen out on ac pro, inexperience will hamper attempts at a fast start. Mere freshmen--Scott Sangster and Mark Fusco--join juniors Carter and Bobby Fowkes to form the top two pairings: and although the first-year men look impressive in practice, they're not Hughes and Olsen--not yet, anyway...
This stubborn issue sprang up after World War II, when Harvard began to grow in leaps, bounds, deeds and titles. Land, always scarce in Cambridge, was gobbled up at premium prices by the University, often simply for "banking" purposes, in case Harvard needed an astro-zoology library some day. The city stepped in to do battle, especially once Harvard started evicting tenants from apartment buildings it had brought. And while Harvard usually won (the last tenants are getting ready to leave the most recent battleground, 7 Sumner Road), it was only at a price. In 1974, sick of the city...
Question 4. Shall the City Council seek authority from the General Court to enable the city to use zoning to regulate tax-exempt institutions in their uses of land in residentially zoned portions of the City of Cambridge...