Word: lieu
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This week's unorthodox choice of Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year, in lieu of the usual Man or Woman of the Year, had its origin in the scorching summer of 1988, when environmental disasters -- droughts, floods, forest fires, polluted beaches -- dominated the news. By August TIME knew it was no longer enough just to describe familiar problems one more time. "The new journalistic challenge," says managing editor Henry Muller, "was to help / find solutions, and that by definition meant international solutions." So we invited a distinguished group of scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents...
Prominent among these efforts was an investigation of the payments Harvard makes in lieu of taxes on buildings used for affiliated housing, such as Peabody Terrace. At a Council hearing on the matter, Walsh described the alternative payments an example of "the Derek Bok philosophy" of avoiding responsibility to the city...
...mayor is very critical in general," he says. "I'm much more critical on specific issues-payments in lieu of taxes... areas in which Harvard can help...
...Memorial Service will be held for Tom in Memorial Church on Wednesday, November 30 at 11:00 a.m. All are welcome. Contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to: The Jimmy Fund Clinic, Dana Farber Cancer Research Center, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115 in memory of Thomas George Corwin...
...foreclosing the prospect of relief assistance from Washington, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra declared, "The best help they can give us is to stop the ((rebel)) aggression." He accused the U.S. of encouraging the contras to take advantage of the storm to infiltrate back into Nicaragua from Honduras. In lieu of direct aid, he suggested that Americans make donations to nongovernmental agencies...