Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty universal experience. Spring eases into Cambridge and students hit the streets in search of summer housing. Last year I fell in step with the crowd and, combing through the leftovers, I found gold. It was fully furnished, with nice off-street parking, a sizable bedroom, even a front porch to park one's bike-or oneself-on after a long day. All that was lacking in the housing deal, it seemed, was the deposit...
...early February, that policy changed, forcing evening class members, who include Harvard employees and students along with members of the public, to park on the adjoining street...
According to Nancy C. Selvage, supervisor of the Radcliffe College ceramics program, parking officials have allowed cars without permits to park in the lot in the evenings and on weekends for the last 10 years...
...opportunity in abundance" and told the government he wanted to set up a campground on the beach, maybe a little restaurant. He brought in water and electric lines, put up a concrete toilet-shower building, then opened for business. Now he owns a caravan park, 12 rental bungalows and the restaurant, and he has plans for more. "I'm very confident about the future," says Nuno. "No one is interested in war ever again." As he sips a coffee, he muses, "You know, a lot of people here are trying to do things just like me. Sure, the government...
...challenge is to re-create the essence of the outfit he first operated out of the trunk of his car with his college track coach and a bunch of running geeks who would do anything to avoid a real job. But this won't be a jog in the park. Last week the company announced a restructuring that landed heavily on its sports center-cum-headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., where about 250 employees were laid off. "When you grow quickly," says Thomas Clarke, the biomechanics Ph.D. who is president and chief operating officer, "sometimes you have layers...