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...These ordinances will stop development," he says, "They will send a salvo to the development community that Cambridge is not interested in the private sector...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Plan to Increase to Housing Stock Draws Opposition | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...proposals will send a salvo to the development community that, once again Cambridge is not encouraging the private sector, "said David Clem of the Athenaeum Group, a development "it is a developers are not welcome" sign...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: City Council Considers Proposals To Increase Low-Income Housing | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Presidents almost never talk openly about how it might be to face a nuclear salvo from the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan did last week. "Think of it," he said in a low voice, seated in front of a wood fire in the calm of the Oval Office. "You're sitting at that desk." He pointed across the room at his working chair. Only the muted crackling of burning logs and the tick of the old grandfather clock broke the silence. Reagan's eyes were squinted, his brow tense. "The word comes that they're (the missiles) on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Alternative Is So Terrible | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...testimony took no account at all of an opening flurry of five shots, which was followed, after 17 sec. of silence, by a second fusillade. Meanwhile, photographs showed "positively, unerringly and incontrovertibly" that there was no movement whatsoever in or around the van during the opening five-shot salvo. In short, the memo concluded, De Guzman's account, which was corroborated by 13 other soldiers under oath, was "nothing but a tall tale, a fabrication from beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: The Heart of the Matter | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...kind of Oliver Twist-flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

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