Word: sprawl
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Looking east from there, industrial parks, warehouses, the major pharmaceutical firm Genzyme and railroad tracks sprawl toward the Charles River. Most of these buildings belong to Harvard, and they sit on one of the University’s largest single parcels of property in Allston...
...wards at Abarbanel. It's a hut built by the British army to handle mentally disturbed World War II soldiers. "If you'd been stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move was the climax of the campaign by Barak, Szor and Mark to have survivors treated as victims...
...remainder of the second period saw quality scoring chances for both teams, as Grumet-Morris had to sprawl across the crease to spoil a power-play bid by Wolverine forward Jason Ryznar, and Harvard's Tim Pettit barely missed on a breakaway attempt in the final minute...
Even Okinawa, Japan's own tropical prefecture, is suffering. The American flavor lent by the sprawl of U.S. military bases there is normally an attraction for Japanese tourists, but the bases now represent both a possible terrorist target and the tense center of war preparations. Two weeks ago, the commander of the Marines took the extraordinary step of publicly appealing for tourists to come back...
...funds to be directed towards affordable housing, open space and historic preservation in exchange for a property tax surcharge. The CPA was enabled by the state legislature last year and will be instituted on a town-by-town basis following municipal votes. The CPA was designed to fight suburban sprawl and the loss of open space. Cambridge desperately needs this funding to help fight the affordable housing crisis that makes it so difficult for middle-class families to live in this area...