Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increases took effect this summer as a City Councillor claimed that Harvard was charging rents below market rate in the buildings. He has since stopped calling the apartments underpriced but still says the University benefits unfairly from the units' tax-exempt status...
Injury Update: Harvard was without the aid of junior forward Derek Mills and senior back Gian D'Ornellas over the weekend, as both were sidelined with injuries. Mills reaggravated a summer knee injury in the UConn game, while D'Ornellas suffers from a sprained ankle...
...approach dominated news reports. Overnight, specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...
...Ring cycle, a dazzling vocal show that remains the best-sung Ring of the past 30 years. But there were also routine evenings of ridden-out war-horses and indifferent conducting. Meanwhile, a deepening budget deficit of $2 million forced the elimination of the company's short summer season. With a bottom-line board of directors perched on his shoulder, McEwen never had the freedom that Adler enjoyed. Nor, apparently, will his successor. "Opera has changed from the autocratic days, when people like Kurt Adler did it all themselves," says the affable, Iranian-born Mansouri, 59, a veteran stage director...
...most of the summer, students who favor unification of North and South Korea and an end to American influence have been clashing with police. However it played on foreign television screens, in Seoul these confrontations had the feel of street theater, not revolution. Students knew just how far they could go, and the riot police knew their roles...