Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weiss said a major effort is underway to raise money to build a hospital at My Lai, site of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers...
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...
Harvard claimed that it could excavate and replant the garden without causing muchpermanent damage, and that the underground site was the only one that would allow scholars to pass from the main library to the addition without stepping outside...
Since that time, however, no alternative site has been explored...
Daniel Cantor, Harvard's director of personnel, said yesterday, "We think this will be the center's last school year spent at its present site. From the long-range point of view, it isn't the best thing to have a day-care center near a source of radiation...