Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group also opposes Harvard's plans to replace the Harvard Motor Inn with a seven-story structure. The organization would like a five-story maximum on all buildings. Gifford said her group would pressure the Cambridge Planning Board, which grants special permits for buildings above 60 feet, to adopt the ceiling...
HSDF is also appealing the special permit granted by the Cambridge Planning Board to Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT), the firm developing a project at 12 Mifflin Place. The specialpermit allows the new building to reach 76 feet inheight, but HSDF hopes to limit it to 60 feet...
Minorities, who may have stronger family tiesthan other students or may be typecast in certainways, have special difficulties fitting into themainstream. And others, from homogenouscommunities, have their own problems adjusting todiversity...
Rarely has the description "statesman" seemed so appropriate. In his long career, however, Urquhart represented no single state but rather every nation on the globe. During a 41-year career as a senior U.N. official, rising to the rank of Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, Urquhart, 69, found himself in the middle of virtually every major international crisis. Though he retired 2 1/2 years ago, Urquhart will be in the delegation that will travel to Oslo next week to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the U.N. for its peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan...
...Vatican's main target in the U.S. was Dignity, an organization for gay Catholics that had been allowed to hold special Masses in many dioceses. Prodded by the San Francisco chapter, one of Dignity's largest (250 members), Dignity's next national convention responded defiantly to Rome, declaring that "gay and lesbian people can express their sexuality physically, in a unitive manner that is loving, life-giving and life-affirming...