Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is on a collision course with the community. Glasnost is over," says Gladys P. Gifford about the University's plan to raze the Mass. Ave. Gulf station and build a hotel on the site...
There is a marvelous mystery that Scouten is nurturing for the White House bicentennial celebration. Only one eyewitness account exists of the laying of the cornerstone on Oct. 13, 1792. An unknown Philadelphian related in a letter that the Freemasons had paraded from Georgetown to the site, placed a plaque between two stones, then returned to "Mr. Suter's Fountain Inn, where an elegant dinner was provided," followed by 16 toasts. The celebrators understandably forgot to record where the cornerstone and plaque were laid...
Plausible, perhaps, but Herrington argued otherwise. "I have run this on a nonpolitical basis," he maintains. "We were picking the best from the best, and it is clear that the Texas site is superior." In particular, the site 28 miles south of Dallas and completely surrounding the town of Waxahachie (pop. 18,300) was rated "outstanding" on four criteria and "good" on two others, clearly outperforming the competition. The best alternative was Tennessee, with three "outstandings," two "goods" and one "satisfactory." Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and North Carolina rounded out the pack. Moreover, Texas volunteered to throw $1 billion...
Though police arrested 10 of the protesters and slightly injured two others in the action against what had become known as "Tent City," about 20 protest veterans returned this weekend to the plot of land where the enclave stood. From the site, it is easy to see the skeleton of MIT's 27-acre University Park development which the campers gathered to protest last year...
...legal developments since November 20, 1987, the City Council approved a zoning package which allows MIT to proceed with the development. But court battles over three rent-controlled houses across the street from the Tent City site are still stalling progress...