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...colleagues were "not very interested" when he and a small group of scientists proposed a scheme to produce the W particle. "There was a hell of a lot of opposition when we submitted our proposal," Rubbia said, noting that Harvard was among the institutions that declined to sponsor the multi-million dollar project...
...militant group of tenants in Harvard's 60-unit Craigie Arms apartment complex had agreed to drop a multi-million dollar suit against the University, Harvard, in return, had agreed to make provisions in a renovated Craigie Arms for some low-and moderate-income tenants...
...later, Daniel Steiner '54, the general counsel to the University for the last 12 years, was promoted to the new post of vice president and general counsel. Steiner, who is widely considered President Bok's right-hand man, will assume Wyatt's responsibility for overseeing Harvard Real Estate, the multi-million dollar non-profit organization that manages the University's properties...
...entered the operation in 1925--and, what's more, in ways that would have appeared utterly alien to the cooperative's motley founders some 50 years earlier. It has grown from "a shelf or two in what was chiefly a fruit store" (as one historian puts it) to a multi-million dollar diversified retail business with six branches around the Boston area. Throughout the school year and summer, students, alumni and faculty of Harvard and MIT, as well as the general public, crowd the stores in search of not only obscure textbooks, but also suits, furniture, records, t-shirts, posters...
Terner defended his behavior, saying. "It's really important that the people in the community realize that we are playing against professionals. Tennis is not a gentleman's sport anymore. It's out of the country clubs and onto the streets. It's a multi-million dollar game. The core of the team--[senior Captain Adam] Beren. [junior Warren] Groomsman. Sands and me--knows what it takes to be a great, and we try to adopt to this mentality of toughness and extreme competitiveness...We don't feel that officials stand up for us so we have to stand...