Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move, begun in the fall, represented the council's attempt to reinvigorate the South African divestment movement...
...After hours of chaotic debate, the City Council votes on a measure allowing a city developer to tear down the University-owned Harvard Motor House and replace it with an office building. Critics of the move argue that the city gave away its rights on the property to Harvard and the developer too cheaply...
...extend until 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. Healy, the city's top administrator. The new contract includes a controversial "buy-out" clause, requiring the city to pay Healy even if the council removes him from his post, and several councillors argue that the move gives the city manager too much power...
...City Council orders the preparation of a home-rule petition backed by some owners of rent-controlled buildings to decontrol certain apartments as they become vacant. Small property owners in the city say the move will give them protection from wealthier tenants, but rent-control activists say the move would, if passed, cripple the city's affordable housing supply...
...student center at Harvard, they were told that such a building was "not a priority." But shortly after students returned to Cambridge in the fall, they were surprised to learn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) wanted to turn the Harvard Union into a humanities center and move the freshperson dining hall to Memorial Hall...