Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks after Harvard threatened to sue the city over a new zoning ordinance that limits its ability to develop the former Gulf station site on Mass. Ave., the University still has not decided whether to take legal action...
...Gulf station site is one of the last pieces of undeveloped land near the Square, and University officials actively campaigned against the new limits on it. In May, President Derek C. Bok made the unusual move of contacting two city Councillors who previously favored new development and asking them to delay the vote...
Rose, on an interview with Reds' radio station WLW before yesterday's game against Los Angeles, said he was "very happy" with the ruling...
...Japanese word ukiyo -- "the floating world" -- suggests the narrow bridges of Hiroshige or the frozen waves of Hokusai. In Kadohata's novel of the '60s, a Japanese American redefines ukiyo as the Western U.S., a place of "gas station attendants, restaurants, and jobs we depended on, the motel towns floating in the middle of fields and mountains." Kadohata has a painter's eye, and her narrator's scroll is filled with scrupulously detailed portraits -- of her tyrannical grandmother, of herself and her lovers and, memorably, of unassimilated migrant workers, like "animals migrating across a field . . . moving from the hard life...
...sporadic skirmishes continued, but by then the great, peaceful dream for democracy had become a horrible nightmare. Hospitals reported receiving scores of dead and hundreds or even thousands of wounded. One anguished doctor reported at least 500 dead. When the government radio announced that 1,000 had died, the station's personnel were quickly removed, and no further death toll was broadcast. Reports circulated that many bodies were being trucked away to be cremated, so the real count may never be known...