Word: looms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definite problem areas loom high, namely the availability of parking and affordable housing. Low-cost housing is already a problem in East Cambridge--where the median family income is $15.929, compared to $28.278 in the Harvard area...
...question of the moment, however, is how much longer the Soviets will be able to impose a bland countenance on their leader's absence. Important public events continue to loom in Moscow, including a semiannual Central Committee plenum that is held in late November or early December. That closed-door session is traditionally followed by a highly publicized meeting of the country's Supreme Soviet, which is normally announced 30 days in advance. Failure to hold those events on schedule would cause muffled embarrassment in the Kremlin, and further uncertainty about the Kremlin abroad. -By George Russell. Reported...
Right now it is a no-win situation, where the interested educators lose out as much as school systems. Student aid is merely one of several financial concerns at the Ed School: faculty salaries and building repairs loom large. Moreover, all the school's new programs need to be funded since the budget is just barely adequate to pay for its current expenses. Led by Dean Graham and Corporation member Hugh Calkins '54, Ed School officials have begun approaching private corporations asking them to give five-year grants to the school. With federal support of education dwindling, the Ed School...
Last week, just before the bull market's first birthday, Citibank threatened to spoil the party. It raised its prime rate from 10½% to 11%. Other banks followed, and stock prices sank as they almost always do when higher interest rates loom. By week's end they had begun a modest rebound, but investors remained nervous. Even so, nothing could change the fact that it had been quite a ride-and, despite the inevitable "corrections," it might have a lot more mileage...
...government is concerned, those things which Meselson et. al. can't explain loom larger than the bee theory itself. Their scientists have acknowledged that bees may be involved with the story--perhaps pollen is being used as a carrier for toxins, one has speculated to Science. But in general, the samples of leaves and rocks carry toxins in levels rot naturally found in Asia, the refugee reports, the Soviet gas mask--along with intelligence reports--have convinced the State Department and some highly reputable scientists that the Soviets are up to mischief...