Word: prop
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...finalized in 1971, when the colleges approved co-educational living within the houses. Still, small vestiges of the pre-merger era remind us of the absurdity of sex-segregated living: legend has it that hooks on the doors of some North House rooms were used by Radcliffe women to prop open their doors when hosting male guests...
Even if we occasionally wonder if some of the scenes were created around what Tan found in the American Repertory Theater prop room, we are often startled by their power...
Cherished by Massachusetts property owners and guarded by anti-tax lobbies and legislators on Beacon Hill, Prop 2 1/2 is in no danger of dying soon...
...Prop 2 1/2 was approved during a nationwide tide of anti-tax sentiment, at a time when high property taxes were soaring even higher. In that political climate, many local governments were pegged as wasteful bureaucracies which overspent the revenue they collected...
Meanwhile small municipalities like Rockport and Manchester will struggle with Prop 2 1/2 overrides to come up with money the state cannot afford to give away anymore. And the tax limiting law will not be modified without lengthy and heated debate, says state Rep. Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston...