Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council last night unanimously voted to adopt an order instructing the City Planning Board to begin work on a program which would limit Harvard's expansion into residential areas...
...order specifically cited Harvard as the biggest threat to the community because its holdings are extensive in the surrounding neighborhoods, and because of its rapid growth over the last ten years...
THERE ARE FURTHER reasons to question the substance behind the word independence. Most importantly, the reality of independence is already being compromised through a growing dependence on American capital markets. Quebec has already borrowed billions of dollars in New York, and can be expected to continue borrowing in order to complete its massive hydro-electric projects in the north...
Financial dependence on foreign capital markets immediately compromises national sovereignty, as the Chilean example clearly demonstrates. In order to continue borrowing foreign capital at reasonable rates, the Quebec government must assure its investors of domestic policies conducive to the maintenance of a profitable business climate in the province or country. Such an assurance, however, decreases the range of policies which any government, provincial or federal, can implement to protect its workers and its culture...
...floor. Someone kindly hands him another and shortly it too falls to the floor. The third time we are all watching. The child slowly leans toward the side on his chair and intently follows the fork as he again drops it to the floor. Has he experienced directly some order in the world? He is no Newton. He cannot write it down. He may not even be able to think it. But has he not just discovered, in a practical sense, a property of the law of gravity...