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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal problems that Emerson encountered in trying to move to Lawrence remain, but city officials said they were confident that the city would win its case against private owners who claim that the law of eminent domain does not apply to the city's attempt to take their land for public...

Author: By Garth R. Wiens, | Title: Emerson Decides on Lawrence, Again | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

When no settlement was reached over the site, which is about 20 miles north of Boston, the school announced its investigation of the Beverly land, about 10 miles northeast of Cambridge...

Author: By Garth R. Wiens, | Title: Emerson Decides on Lawrence, Again | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...City Council last night told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology not to evict a "Tent City" of homeless people on the university's land, and adopted a new program to match vacant rent-controlled apartments with needy tenants...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Tells MIT Not to Evict | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...edge of infinity, has no, not four or 20 but a human two arms and two human legs--not far from reality, now, but the train is leaving, and the dancing vortex of consciousness in the back seat, the Ginsburg #1, stops his contortions to point like a land-sighting sailor at the topmast and shout--"Human!", and it is so, this desert space contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs and wakes long enough to speak: "Man, what would happen if Richard Nixon turned on? I mean, if he just had one joint...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...wife, daughter and son occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined up in front of what he calls "this week's restaurant of the century." Inside these land yachts, the young and newly rich slurp drinks while waiting for their names to be announced for the next available table. The highest status will be conferred on the toff who gets embraced by the restaurant's owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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