Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit, the University has tried to patch up relations with the city, donating land last year for an Allston branch library. More recently, the University has agreed to increase its payment in lieu of taxes to the city by $12 million. But the fact remains that by covering up its purchases, even in order to protect itself from inflated real estate prices, Harvard acquired its land in an underhanded manner, a move that will likely taint town-gown relations for years to come...
...Mary Pipher, author of the best-selling book Reviving Ophelia and the recently published Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (Riverhead Books, $24.95). "We weren't in a Depression. We weren't in World War II. For many baby boomers, this is the first really rough patch in their lives...
...quietly. And when the bitter rivalry in the New York G.O.P. between Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was looking like it might sabotage the mayor's chances in a Senate race against Hillary Clinton, Rove made it known through intermediaries that Governor Bush wanted Pataki to patch things up. The reason: an easy ride for Hillary would hurt Bush's chances of being competitive in New York against the Democratic presidential nominee. (Rove claims he did not broker the peace between Pataki and Giuliani, but two other sources close to the negotiations say Rove got the ball rolling...
...Late Shift (Random House; 248 pages; $25), when he gushes about "meeting young people at the proving point of their lives who risked it all and would either succeed wildly or go down tragically," Bronson is on a crusade to capture the romance of this seemingly soulless patch of Northern California...
...students of royal families, all the signs of marital strain are there. The couple manage to make a pretty picture when together in public, but they are together less and less. Away from each other, they are unable to do anything but complain about their mate. Whether they patch it back together, and quickly, could go a long way toward determining who will be the next President--or at least the Democratic nominee...