Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty meeting two weeks ago, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes presented an interesting and convincing objection to Harvard's plan to build a hotel on the Quincy Square spot currently occupied by the Gulf station. Landes asked why, when the University is having so much trouble finding places for professors to work, would the administration propose to devote resources and valuable space for what would primarily be a profit-making venture...
Harvard is not proud of its current hotel, Harvard Motor House, located on Eliot Street, and wants to use the recently acquired Gulf station property to build a more attractive, 150-200 room, medium-priced hotel. There are precedents for universities owning hotels--they can be a good source of revenue and a convenient place for visiting parents to stay. If Harvard were simply trading one hotel for another, there would not be much concern...
...outside developer and would not, at this point, house any University administrative or academic offices--it would be a purely profit-making venture for the school. It seems that it would not be as profitable for the University to build its hotel on that space; the Gulf station property on Mass. Ave. would not be as lucrative for offices, but a hotel would do well there...
According to the police account, a witness called the station at 4:13 p.m. Thursday to report the fire, which engulfed maintenance equipment, including lawn mowers, tractors, aerators and sprinklers stored in the area...
...ambition is matched by their ingenuity," says James Oberg, a Houston engineer and an expert on the Soviet space program. "It blows us out of our last space-operations monopoly." The Soviet program achieved a second milestone just a few days earlier: on board the orbiting Mir space station, which has no U.S. equivalent, cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov broke the world record of 326 days in space...