Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though this may anger Cambridge residents and community leaders who see it as just another way for Harvard to gobble up local real estate, it solves the tax problem for the professors...
Hargadon also told the audience of 30 local admissions officials that "no matter how you cut it, we have made a lot of progress in minority admissions. Too much of what has been written is the pathology of it all," he said, adding, "hardly ever do you hear the success stories...
...Local nightclub owners have mixed reactions to the proposed bill. "I think the bill is a bunch of baloney anyway," Patrick T. Lyons, general manager and director of public relations at the discotheque Boston-Boston, said yesterday. He added that if legislators hope the bill will get drinking teenagers off the highways, the bill will fail because it will force teenagers to drive to neighboring states where the drinking age is 18 to get liquor...
...plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
AMREX is the brainchild of Gerald Jackson, 43, a former real estate agent and farmer. He developed the concept of AMREX while teaching real estate at the University of California at Berkeley. In the course of his research he discovered that local ownership of a random sample of prime property in the Los Angeles area had dropped from 90% in 1945 to close to 40% by 1965. Deciding that such absentee buying could be better handled through a central exchange of sorts, Jackson started a West Coast exchange in 1968 with a local real estate firm. Though business was uneven...