Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan argues that homelessness is still a hot issue in the city. In Central Square, local residents this spring defeated a proposal to convert an abandoned church building into a 20-bed shelter, while in the western section of Cambridge, neighbors are currently trying to prevent a non-profit group from establishing a home for mental patients in the area...
...looks increasingly tempting to political scientists, economists, and regional specialists. While the CIA has pledged to loosen the strings on its grants, it is up to University Hall to establish firm controls on this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of the fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems related to the current drain on research resources...
...effort to prevent construction last spring, community activists filed a petition to have the 94-year-old building at 10 Mt. Auburn declared a historical landmark. Although the Housing Commission eventually decided against making 10 Mt. Auburn a landmark, it did place a six-month freeze on construction. As a result, Harvard eventually decided to renovate rather than tear down the building...
...course, there's something inherently ridiculous about a board that does not prevent electioneering by those it nominally oversees. But the board's inefficacy highlights disturbing truths about the state of decision-making at Harvard...
...house in Holliswood, Queens, that Andrea Cuomo had built for them. Cuomo was his papa's boy: he worked all the time. But he grew restive. He needed a cause and found one in a group of blue- collar, mostly Italian families from Corona, Queens, who were trying to prevent the city from tearing down their houses for a new school. After six years, Cuomo won a compromise that saved nearly all the homes...