Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Harvard expansion policies were slowed by the strike of '69 and the rent-control and tenant activism which partly derived from it. The University Road apartments, and issue in the strike, have remained standing for 20 years. But Harvard's negative role in the Cambridge housing market has continued. According to the Cambridge Tenants Union, Harvard's lawyers and real estate managers have become experts at using loopholes in the rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over...
...weather seemed more appropriate for football. The Red Sox were limping home from a 1-4 road trip. Yet somehow the sun managed to light a fire under the Red Sox and their fans...
...reminder came from the group to keep the speech short. After all, we had only one glass to pass around. The hour was getting late, and everyone wanted a chance to drink na pososhok, a toast before taking up your walking stick, as the Russians say. One for the road, however rough and long it might...
...month even if no one came to dinner. "I didn't care if we had customers or not," he says with a shrug. "I didn't care if the service was good." Two years ago, he started his own now popular bistro, Kropotkinskaya 36, just off Sadovaya Ring Road in the Soviet capital. Fedorov pays himself about 850 rubles ($1,360) a month, nearly four times the average Soviet salary. But he works twice as hard as he ever did as a government employee. "If I don't have customers," he says, "I'll go bankrupt...
...banners and posters that once festooned the avenues and office buildings have vanished, along with their exhortations for workers to fulfill the latest Five-Year Plan and their dreary pronouncements that the socialist road is the road to peace. If the boilerplate is not missed, the color...