Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard still held a trump card. Under a separate plan that the Boston Redevelopment Authority had been working on--with active Harvard encouragement--the museum portion of the library would be built in a section of the Navy Yard, as part of a comprehensive plan for the Charlestown yard. The library portion would remain in Cambridge...
...better than they were on the morning that they called us up to say goodbye." Since June Harvard has spent more than $30,000 to work out an arrangement with the city of Cambridge on the related facilities--those structures that are to accompany the archival portion of the library if it ever gets built in the MBTA yard site. The negotiations are the lifeblood of the Cambridge end of the deal, because it is by selling some sort of package to a developer--which may include entertainment facilities, hotels, or a small shopping plaza--that Harvard hopes to recoup...
...many Britons, the nation's high public spending has meant a steady decrease in private income. Most British workers are in a 33% income tax bracket. The top tax rate for singles is 83% on the portion of taxable income over $38,000. This compares with a 70% maximum rate on taxable income over $100,000 in the U.S. Even in socialist Sweden, the highest tax rate is 69%. And when they venture abroad, Britons find that their money buys increasingly less; last week the pound was worth $2.10, v. $2.35 only last...
...first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office (to the Massachusetts legislature in 1974), coming out was more difficult. It cost her her job as an advertising executive, her female lover, who was afraid to be seen with her, "and at least for a time, a certain portion of my sanity." There were obscene phone calls, dirty words written on her car, slashed tires. People looked on her as "a freak, a tattooed lady." "I wonder, if we knew the cost," she says, "would we still have done...
...Andreas Fault, two great plates are sliding past each other. The sliver west of the fault, which is located on the Pacific plate, is moving toward the northwest. The rest of the state is resting on the North American plate, which is moving westward. The sudden movement of a portion of the fault that had been locked in place for many years is thought to have caused the great San Francisco earthquake...