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Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominster--and they like that just fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominister--and they like that just fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came to be known as Governor Gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL RUN IF I WANT TO | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...concrete jungle (well, except for Holyoke Center) this region actually has trees. Many parts of the Square, including Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard, and the Cambridge Common, are delightfully leafy, shaded enclaves. In the winter, the city's open space turns to mud. But during the summer months, students can sprawl on Harvard lawns that were carefully made green for the Commencement crowds...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Living Is Easy! | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

...Armey's overwhelmingly Republican district of affluent suburbs that sprawl like a cattle drive across Red River valley farmland, that kind of talk usually goes down well. At a town-hall meeting, Armey, dressed in his trademark dark suit and cowboy boots, got riled when an atypical constituent accused him of gutting environmental-protection laws in order to give corporate polluters a break. "I'm not gonna take a lecture that I need to compromise," Armey fired back. "I've got compromise fatigue." The voter was booed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: FISHING FOR CONVERTS | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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