Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negative role in the Cambridge housing market has continued. According to the Cambridge Tenants Union, Harvard's lawyers and real estate managers have become experts at using loopholes in the rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over its heating grates to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. When can we expect to see our alma mater becoming part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, of affordable housing and homelessness...
Several days later, they published a "news analysis" that seemed to imply that newspapers were above such criticism. The news piece, which included statements better suited for an editorial page, was so unprofessional that the paper ran an editor's note the following day, retracting most of the article...
...more relieved right now than anything,"Berkoff said at the conclusion of his final meet."Everybody expected me to win again and added alot of pressure, but I'm happy that everythingfinished on such a position note. It was alsogreat for the other guys on the team to do so wellin our relay, because it really was a teameffort...
...gained its independence in 1947. Most analysts agree, however, that India has pulled well ahead of its archfoe: its modern combat aircraft, for example, now outnumber Pakistan's by as many as 5 to 1. China is sometimes invoked by Indian officials as the "real threat." But most analysts note that apart from maintaining its close ties with Pakistan, Beijing has taken no military or diplomatic action since the 1970s that could be construed as ! threatening by New Delhi...
...Agreed to a North suggestion in February 1985 that Honduras get $35 million in expedited military aid and $75 million in economic assistance in return for its help to the contras, many of whom operated from camps in Honduras. The note also directed a secret emissary to brief Honduran officials on the deal...