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...struggle against the construction, Murphy knows how high a price private institutions must pay to build a power plant. That price rightly ought to be prohibitive, Murphy says, because doctors and power don't mix. He has faith that someone will recognize the dangers of putting a large plant smack in the middle of a medical area, but he's not sure if that recognition will come too late...
...except for Gay who went out in the fields and disappeared, ducking under the stopped bank of a rock-banked rivulet) piled into Peg's overgrown, galvanized bathtub which sits smack in the middle of a lush, green rice paddy of a field like any other of the 1600 acres worth of fields on Pegleg's piece of land except it's where it is and not lost out in the real boonies of this vacant land--all of us getting all hot and drippy from the water bubbling in from the source (up 100 yards from the white bearded...
...Affiliated Hospitals Center. The Harvard/MASCO plan will have an impact on the people in Boston that is almost unparalleled in urban development. It is one thing to replace a section of commercial downtown with similar commercial construction it is quite another to move $220 million worth of construction smack into the middle of an established neighborhood when most of that money will be spent on things which will serve that community in no way at all. Harvard plans to spend $50 million on its power plant, $130 million on the hospital tower, and only $40 million of state money...
...Excuse me." A chilly command from above froze me in my tracks. I had wandered smack into the path of a chestnut gelding and its charming 12-year-old rider, who was pert in her manner, precise in her dress and, in my opinion, a pain in the ass. I mustered up a feeble apology and let her trot by. The manure be damned: I raised my eyes and strode straight ahead...
Harvard has been somewhere right smack in the middle of all the commotion...