Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concern about the future of this bill is particularly strong because of the expiration of another Harvard policy. In 1972, the University agreed to outline on a map its development plans, saying that these "red lined" areas would be the sole focus of its future acquisitions until...
...many ironies of the entire mission was the fact that the C-130s were heading for a remote spot in the desert that the Iranians had feared might some day be used by U.S. forces. Indeed, they even had a map of the spot. It was discovered in the papers of Mahmoud Jaafarian, a pro-Shah counterinsurgency strategist who was executed after the revolution a year ago. Jaafarian was actually trying to burn the map when he was seized by the revolutionaries. Jaafarian told his captors that the staging site had been secretly built by the CIA, with the Shah...
...Faneuil Hall. (What's Boston if it isn't Quincy Market?, they asked me.) Mr. and Mrs. N liked Albuquerque just fine, but they were surprised it was so far from Hackensack; it looked a lot closer on their Exxon-MIT map. (You're so lucky to live in such a big country, Mrs. N often tells Nadia...
...flash across the screen. Spotting some possibly ominous patches, he zeroes in on one of the red and yellow areas. Then, fiddling with the controls, he orders up another display, showing tiny arrows circling counterclockwise and swirling ever closer in a tightening loop. After checking the coordinates on a map superimposed on his screen, the operator telephones an alert for the threatened area to the National Weather Service: a tornado may be about to strike...
...University in Cairo in 1952. Egyptian authorities pronounced it subversive, and copies were hidden in girls' lockers at the university to avoid detection by police. Beseisso himself spent seven years in various Arab jails, including five years in an Egyptian desert prison that he describes as "outside the map of God, where it rains for five minutes once in 50 years." He asks, sardonically: "Will the Arabs ever be honest enough to talk about their concentration camps?" Beseisso edits the literary magazine Lotus in Beirut; his frequent travels abroad include visits to the Soviet Union...