Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MATEP saga has been a classic case of inconsiderate University behavior. Harvard has consistently refused to consult the concerned Brookline and Mission Hill residents who must live among its possibly toxic fumes. More brazenly, it has refused to test its plant for numerous health hazards, cockily denying serious health code violations that were later uncovered. Unless MATEP's management style changes drastically. Harvard should give up on this costly embarrassment...
...MATEP saga has been a classic case of inconsiderate University behavior. Harvard has consistently refused to consult the concerned Brookline and Mission Hill residents who must live among its possibly toxic fumes. More brazenly, it has refused to test its plant for numerous health hazards, cockily denying serious health code violations that were later uncovered. Unless MATEP's management style changes drastically, Harvard should give up on this costly embarrassment...
...final chapter in the saga of the now-extinct Student Assembly was perhaps the most pathetic in a four-year series of sorry episodes. In its last semester, the 96-seat council could only find 55 interested participants. And last May, When the forlorn student government-which this year will be replaced by a funded and centralized one-was to meet for the purpose of disbanding officially the meeting did not even draw a quorum. The assembly had to be buried by telephone; the more dedicated representatives called the absentees to approve its extermination...
...unpleasant saga of two formerly Harvard-affiliated doctors convicted in 1981 along with a third colleague of gang-raping a nurse may finally drop out of the headlines. The former Harvard doctors--Arif Hussain and Eugene Sherry--learned in July that their six-month sentences had been upheld, as had an identical punishment for fellow defendant Alan Lefkowitz...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...