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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House spokesman refused to say why St. John's was selected as a site for Reagan's visit, which followed a swing through the New York stock Exchange. But one official told The New York Times, "We were just looking for an invitation in New York, We went through the computer-we had this invitation on file...
Built on the former site of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's bus barns--the site once designated for the John F. Kennedy presidential library--Charles Square is the largest mixed-use development in New England...
After poisonous vapors spewed from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, last December, killing some 2,000 people and injuring another 200,000, Chairman Warren Anderson flew halfway around the world to make a dramatic appearance at the site, promising to find out what had gone wrong. Last week, at a press briefing near the company's Danbury, Conn., headquarters, he made good his promise. The world's worst industrial accident had been caused, he said, by gross violations of established safety procedures. "That plant," Anderson declared, "should not have been operating...
...suitors have come bearing tax breaks, free land, cut-rate electricity and other goodies. The prize they are all pursuing: the site for the factory that will build the Saturn, a new small car designed by General Motors to be competitive with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center...
...Boston real estate developer is at odds with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) over the acquisition of hospital-owned land near the proposed site of a new sports arena...