Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kiely plan was rebuffed because Harvard wants the whole parcel for itself. Ironically, the St. Paul's parking lot stands in the midst of a neighborhood in which Harvard has destroyed more than 70 homes in the last 40 years to make room for dormitories...
...Kiely plan was rebuffed because Harvard wants the whole parcel for itself. Citing the Harvard Corporation's supposed reluctance to fund a community-oriented project in the Square, President Derek C. Bok himself brushed off the unique plan to convert this property into some sort of mixed-income housing complex with local, state and federal funding. Ironically, the St. Paul's parking lot stands in the midst of a neighborhood in which Harvard has destroyed more than 70 homes in the last 40 years to make way for dormitories...
...final stage of a slow fermentation process." He cites the birth of Federal Express, the company that created the market for overnight mail delivery. The idea for the business first came to Founder Frederick Smith while he was a student at Yale writing a term paper on the parcel-service system. Much later, while he was flying combat missions in Viet Nam, Smith developed his notion of an "absolutely, positively overnight" service...
...last will and testament, released upon his death in 1949, Stillman instructed his caretakers "to have my remains cremated and the ashes scattered in Black Rock Forest, Orange County, New York." In the same document, he donated to the University the 3800-acre parcel of land that borders the Hudson River, along with a sizable endowment...
...park site was originally designated as the location of the John F. Kennedy Library. However, because of civic opposition in Cambridge, the library was built in Dorchester. The land was used as an MBTA car barn until 1976, when the state allocated the riverfront parcel for the construction of the state's official JFK memorial...