Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-proclaimed birthplace of frozen yogurt, the Spa of Harvard Square, closed last week after the store's landlord alledgedly refused to renew the restaurant's lease...
...would alter the very nature of war and peace, change the face of battle and of civilian life," says Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and an expert in chemical weaponry. Yet last week Congress agreed to renew chemical weapon production for the first time in ten years while providing the Army with the funds necessary to clear a site for a munitions plant in Arkansas...
...under any delusion that the verdict would mean a return to business as usual. With support of the premiers of the nine other provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made what he called "a most solemn commitment" in return for the non to separatism: "We will immediately take action to renew the constitution and will not stop until we have done that...
...ordinary about Ordinary People stop there. For the fact is that Robert Redford, directing his first film (based on Judith Guest's novel), has created an austere and delicate examination of the ways in which a likable family falters under pressure and struggles, with ambiguous results, to renew itself. This is not very show-bizzy stuff, but for once, a movie star has used his power to create not light entertainment or a trendy political statement, but a work that addresses itself quietly and intelligently to issues everyone who attempts to raise children must face...
More than 75 students staged a rally last May, demanding that the executive committee renew Cudjoe's contract and claiming that "ideological differences between Cudjoe and committee members hindered his chances for reappointment. Freeman denied that ideological considerations affected the final decision, but student reaction this fall will undoubtedly prove irate...