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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now, Harvard Real Estate may not care how many freshmen are mugged or how many upperclassmen are run over en route from the River Houses. But I would think someone there would notice that, with all the concessions HRE promises to meet such worries, the hotel will hardly be an...

Author: By M. DAVID Samson, | Title: Hotels | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

Elizabeth A. McBride, the newly installed school committee chairperson who has opposed the plan in the past, said that "lawyers are still working on the contract and the indemnification issue is holding us up. Meetings have been called but nothing has been put before us. Right now we're at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liability Issues Stymie Chelsea Takeover | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

The setting is an upscale exurban village on the Hudson River. Ian McCullough is a senior fellow at a rather grandly named think tank, the Institute for Independent Research in the Social Sciences. He specializes in population studies and also edits a prestigious journal on international politics. Glynnis, his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nice People in Glass Houses | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

In the McCulloughs' case, this is almost literally true. Walls and walls of their house are nothing but glass, and readers who expect something to shatter will not be disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nice People in Glass Houses | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Andy Lipkis, 34, a bearded, boyish, homespun half saint, knows something about delivering dreams. His life is a demonstration in respectable alchemy, creating gold from nothing. Inspired by the belief that planting trees can reduce smog, protect the ozone layer, feed hungry people and, when all is said and done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planting Trees of Life | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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