Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Team members attributed the loss in part to weather conditions and holiday traffic that prevented one of their strongest players from getting to Columbus. Second-seeded Girome S. Bono '88, a senior master--the highest national rank--spent two days waiting at Logan Airport to fly to the match site...
...superior court judge reversed a Cambridge Rent Control Board decision last week in a move that could throw a wrench into part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's plans to develop a 27-acre site in Cambridgeport...
...judge ruled that the Board followed an "unlawful procedure" in giving MIT permits to either demolish or remove five rent-controlled buildings on the site of its University Park development...
...deeds of each of these ancestors, in creating and sustaining the world, form an immense narrative beside which the Mahabharata is a mere short story, and all of them are embedded in the sacred sites that cover Australia. (From the Aboriginal point of view, in fact, Australia is one big sacred site.) Hence as curator Peter Sutton puts it in the catalog, "The land is already a narrative -- an artifact of intellect -- before people represent it. There is no wilderness...
...press flocked to the site, the oil companies, biologists and Eskimos discovered they had unleashed a juggernaut they could not control. The Eskimos quickly abandoned their seasonal hunt for endangered bowhead whales in the belief that it would not look good on network news. The oil companies found themselves in a no-win situation. Lampooned by an Anchorage Daily News cartoon that showed oil-company workers competing in a race for a "Public Relations Cup," the rescuers also faced the possibility of inadvertently killing the whales with kindness. Would the shock of heavy equipment hammering the ice pack panic...