Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Island, politics is run by a monolithic political entity that more resembles the Kremlin than Cambridge City Hall. There is one party line, one party candidate and little room for dissent within that party. The county's party boss is also presiding supervisor of the county's largest town...
...Truman Apartments, 25 Eighth St. (Community Room, Thorndike St. entrance...
...college classes while still in high school, she didn't have a typical American adolescence, but says she didn't care. From childhood on, she could go "for hours and days just playing by myself or reading," and recalls with pleasure how she would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could say I was somewhat of a nerd," she laughs...
According to Tim Zagat, whose pocket-size books rate restaurants in 14 American cities, game has taken off this season partly because of "an overall interest in finer foods." Joseph Baum, co-owner of New York City's Rainbow Room and Aurora restaurants, agrees. "Flavor is in again, and game is full of flavor," he says. "It's evocative of the past, of tradition. It's romantic." This season Aurora has set up a special game menu for its dinner guests. Last week's offerings included medallions of venison with dried fruit, saddle of hare with black- and white-peppercorn...
Sachs, whose work in Latin America is underwritten by the United Nations, responds that "if one person can be attacked from so many directions, there hasn't been enough contact between sides" in the debt crisis. "Much of my work," he notes, "is just sitting quietly in a back room analyzing data with members of the government." Sachs did that on a 1986 trip to Bolivia, when he arrived to find that the Planning Minister had resigned and the government was ready to drop its anti-inflation program. But after examining the latest figures, Sachs argued that the program...