Word: neared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bookstore, located near the Princeton campus, is owned by Barnes and Noble, a national chain of booksellers which had removed Rushdie's book from the shelves of all its bookstores for security reasons. The books were returned on the day of the Princeton protest...
City Manager Robert W. Healy agreed during a City Council hearing last night to increase police patrols near Columbia St. in mid-Cambridge in order to combat the neighborhood's growing drug problem...
...City Council this week will begin a series of discussions that could shape the future of residential neighborhoods around the University when it reviews a zoning petition designed to halt two controversial developments near Harvard Square...
...morning, 2 a.m., October 1987, Winthrop House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine is out-of-order for several days...
Unprecedented as they were, the talks between El Salvador's rebels and its political parties, including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...