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...such a policy change does come about, the University will certainly have a big task ahead of it. Some companies are named Harvard coincidentally. Others, like Harvard Dry Cleaners, Harvard Car Wash. Harvard Auto and Truck Repair, Harvard Refuse and even the Harvard. Family Restaurant--all in Cleveland--seem to take their name from their close proximity to scores of streets, roads and avenues around America that are also named Harvard...
...project was tight. From the moment the green light was given, engineers and others on the project began to put in 90-hour work weeks-figuring, designing, double-checking and, as it turned out, sometimes starting over. At the same time, NASA was preparing for another rescue, the repair in space of the Solar Maximum Mission scientific satellite damaged in 1980. The space agency set out to fix the sophisticated $75 million instrument on the eleventh shuttle flight last April. But Astronaut George Nelson was unable to grasp the Solar Max with a device mounted on the arms...
Baker joked that he was the Senate's janitor, opening up the place every morning and keeping the political plumbing in good repair. But as the first Republican majority leader since 1953, he deftly walked the line between passive overseer and overbearing boss, nudging consensus into shape when he could, urging the White House to change legislative tacks when he could not. The institution is balky, filled with large egos and powerful fiefdoms. The majority leader has to wheedle and plead, wheel and deal, yet maintain an almost presidential gravity...
Before razing the building over the old subway exit, the Perini Construction Company the firm which handled the MBTA reconstruction, saved the structure's distinctive copper roof for eventual repair Perini duplicated the original building over the subway station and topped it off with the refurbished roof in accordance with its contract with the MBIA...
Besides dealing with feminism and women's lives. Paley's stories often focus on questions of Jewish identity. Asked about her source of inspiration, she said emphatically. "I was raised as a non-violent Jew... [and taught that] Jews were here to repair the world...