Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council Monday night put off discussion of two major controversies: an extension for City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract and a decision to let the developer of the Harvard Motor Inn site knock down the current Inn and replace it with shops and offices...
...Council set a special meeting Friday to consider Healy's contract, but the Motor Inn will not come up until the next regular meeting, on January 23. Both items had been postponed once and were due to come up Monday night, but the Council endorsed by voice vote Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr.'s motion to table all previously postponed items...
Carpenter and Co., the Motor Inn site's developer, cannot proceed with its plans unless the Council lets City Manager Robert W. Healy transfer the city's right to operate a municipal parking lot on the ground floor of the Inn--legally known as an easement--to an indoor garage in another part of the new building...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...first order bans foodstuffs not packaged in an "environmentally acceptable" manner and will go into effect on October 1, 1991. The second ordinance, which will go into effect immediately, will facilitate the proper disposal of used motor...