Word: result
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That course was introduced into the curriculumas the result of lobbying efforts on the part ofthe Harvard Foundation's Academic Affairscommittee, said Associate Professor of Sociologyand Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison...
...result of the committee's recommendation, the police added more personnel to the Central Square beat and the department started keeping better crime statistics, Rossi says. Like Woodbury, Rossi insists that "the whole thrust was not to change Central Square but to make it more appealing for those who already live there...
Simon Smith, immigration counselor for CHAMA, (Cambridge Haitian American Association), said that lower income Haitians will suffer as a result of the increasing land values and rental rates in the square. "When you have new businesses, displacement of the poor results. There are plenty of examples, Roxbury and the South End, to prove it," saysid Smith who adds that he is skeptical of MIT's plan to provide low-income housing...
...lose." This year PACs have contributed $66 million to congressional incumbents, an increase of 29.4% over 1986, while handing challengers only $7 million, about the same as in previous elections. Democrats have garnered $52 million, up 44% from 1986, but Republicans received only $28 million, a drop of 6.7%. Result: PAC money tends to freeze the balance of power between the two parties and give many incumbents what can amount to a lifetime appointment to Congress...
Until recently, the form of travel available to Soviet dissidents was one way. Now, though, it looks as if the Soviet Union's most prominent dissenter will be granted a visa for a trip to the U.S. that will not result in unwanted exile. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights efforts, announced last week that the Soviet government had tentatively agreed to let him visit the U.S. next month. The reason for the trip: a conference of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, an organization devoted to environmental...