Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...date budgeting methods, hold municipal salaries to cost of living increases (municipal salaries in Cambridge are among the highest in the state and comprise about 70 per cent of the city budget), give top priority to keeping existing industry, urge non-profit institutions to make greater in lieu of tax payments, and join other cities and towns to lobby for more favorable state aid and distribution formulas for urban areas, and for a greater commitment of help from the Federal government. The property tax is regressive and distorts all planning priorities. We must work to establish a progressive income...
Besides cable TV, the police and political infighting, the lieu-of-taxes payments and expansion of the city's two large universities, the rising property tax rate and the distribution of the city's ever scarcer poverty funds among the lower class ethnic neighborhoods should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively...
...were also recently informed that a physician studying the side effects of the pill had prescribed a sugar placebo in lieu of the contraceptive to Chicano patients. These women were to be the "controls" in his experiment. To their surprise the women soon found themselves burdened with unwanted pregnancies...
From a small party, or a simple unplanned gathering, a 'get-together'; a scene, common in all its intrigues: the signals of one highly evolved life-form trying to communicate with another. Uncommon: this group of people having devised (in lieu of rational and effective precedents) a higher degree of intricate developments; though thousands had trudged the same road before...
...FLEDGLING entrepreneurs who solicited advertising hit on a plan: "We canvassed our friends, and ascertained what necessities they expected to purchase, and then solicited an advertisement, agreeing to take the article they wanted at a small discount from the regular price, in lieu of cash. This scheme worked famously, and when our board retired, we left our successors a sheet absolutely free from debt, and at least $200, either in cash or in easily collected bills...