Word: neighborhood
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...having problems. In the late 1960s the company bought Hooker Chemical Co. in a effort to diversify. But in the 1970s, allegations surfaced that toxic waste that Hooker dumped into the ground during the 1940s and early '50s was causing severe health problems in Niagara's Love Canal neighborhood. Oxy Pete needed cash to shore up this and other problems, and its CEO, Armand Hammer - flamboyant, powerful and ultimately corrupt - came up with a solution: raid the retirement kitty. Amazingly, this was legal at the time, and Hammer wasn't alone in doing...
...said for having to make an effort—I can’t just count on the ease of them being in proximity by default. And my ever-growing consortium of adopted blockmates and linkmates makes this campus seem to be continually shrinking. Living in every River neighborhood was something I would repeat again without a doubt, if only for the sake of experience. Abbott Lawrence Lowell is probably spinning in his grave (I think I’ve violated every ideal of his House system brainchild), but I make no apologies. Look out Quad, you might be next...
...Harvard will be another neighborhood with its own set of needs, its own set of issues,” he said. “I’ve coped with those in the past, I think pretty well...
Harvard has made a commitment to the City of Boston allowing residential development on a small parcel of its landholdings in Allston—a rare gesture from a University that has frustrated residents by remaining closemouthed about its plans for certain neighborhood properties...
Conversation remained heated, divisive, and often tense throughout the meeting as BRA planners outlined the Charlesview plan and neighborhood residents provided comments and criticisms...