Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of its length, a tunnel runs from two to ten feet below street level, and almost all of it is high enough to stand in. In two stretches, however, obstacles restricted tunnel construction and special designs had to be employed. One was the MBTA subway line. Squeezed between the subway tunnel and Massachusetts Ave., the steam tunnel shrinks to a mere 3 1/2 feet in height. Workers must lie prone on a rolling flatbed cart and draw themselves along by means of a rope pulley system. Most maintenance men go above ground to avoid this segment, using the pull...
Kleinfelder explains that the major difference between a college team like Harvard's--only five years old--and a U.S. team is really a matter of degree. "You have the skill level with the national team. Skill level is not going to interfere with anything you want to do. At the college level, though, you spend a lot of time on skill work," she says...
Kleinfelder knows the disruption caused by her absence may cause some difficulties, but she says the Harvard team will do some work this winter to get a jump on the season. In addition, coming from national-level lacrosse back to the Harvard team will bring, she says, "an interesting period of adjustment...
...night of the first meeting of Harvard's newly-born Student Assembly. In Science Center A, the noise level remains at a dull roar. Six candidates running for the position of chairman of the assembly stand before the group. Four are former members of the Constitutional Convention, one is a smooth-talking sophomore from Quincy House, and the other is dressed as a magician and promises to help disband the assembly...
...York pension funds had been reinvested in the city to create jobs, along the lines of community development efforts now taking place in harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, the city's tax base could have supported a high level of social services. But the choice for the Graybelt is no longer just more or fewer social services, but whether or not regional depression will set in. The choice is between a stable, job-providing economy and an economy that pushes us down, down, down, until we're just like Taiwan...