Word: reading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other council business, council candidate James M. Williamson criticized the council in the public comment section of the meeting for not preserving The Tasty, a longtime independent restaurant in the center of Harvard Square which closed in November 1997. The new Read Block, which includes chain stores Abercrombie and Fitch and Pacific Sunwear, replaced the restaurant this year...
...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," it read. "We cannot look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
Bradley also found a way to play an active role in his stepdaughter's life. He and St. Onge, both night owls, would stay up late after Ernestine had retired at 10 p.m. Bradley would read as St. Onge did her homework, and sometimes she would ask him questions. "He'd give these elaborate, wonderful 'I-was-there' kind of answers," she recalls. Once, when she was studying Vietnam, he brought out textiles from there, which she used to help illustrate her report...
...workers actually do better under a cash-balance plan, 40- to 50-year-olds about to enter their peak earning years can lose up to half of their expected final payout. To drive that point home, some Big Blue employees flew a banner over the Minnesota state fair that read, IBM'S PENSION THEFT COULD HAPPEN...
Many years ago, Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas...