Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condominium complex is several blocks beyond the edge of the red line, a fact Zeckhauser said she was aware of when the purchase was made...
...line was drawn five years ago by University planners in response to community resistance to Harvard's expansion. The only exceptions the University ever anticipated it would make to the pledge, which expires in January, were in the Brattle Street and Western avenue sections of Cambridge...
Michael Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, defended the University's record in connection affairs, defended the University's record in connection with the red line. "It was drawn in response to speculative pressure, to make people secure around the edges of Harvard. We have stuck to our guns with the red line," Brewer said, adding that he did not consider the Strathcona purchase a violation of the spirit or the letter of the agreement since it did not involve speculation...
...heal," borrowing from Ecclesiastes. If it actually were a time to heal, that healing called for active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity of the WIN button (which Ford still defends as a "good idea"); in line with his Calvinistic youth, Ford is begging off his responsibility to a force, in this case history, beyond his control...
Student charges of the committee's ineffectiveness and its near-perfect record of following the Corporation's line, especially as an investor using Harvard's power through shareholder resolutions, has marred the committee's image among students. The Corporation assigned the committee the task of a case-by-case review of corporate practices in South Africa and of recommending possible shifts in the portfolio. The ACSR could have taken on the role of independent critic, but it has rarely dissented from past Corporation policies. Its reports indicated that instead of fighting to alter corporate practices by sponsoring shareholder resolutions...