Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene in New Haven this past weekend at the Ivy League men's water polo tournament bore much resemblance to the past two Summer Olympics. One of two major powers was not present, so the other major power dominated...
Construction sites sprouted all over the city this summer and fall--notably in Harvard and Kendall Squares--making the issue of development an extremely visible one for Tuesday's election. Conflicting solutions to the problems of development have even drowned out the traditional rhetoric against expansion by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year the universities are only two particularly large developers among many others...
Both sides also cite a study on rent-controltenants that was released this summer. Based on apoll by Abt Associates, a local consulting firm,the study shows that 70 percent of cityrent-control tenants make less than the averagecity income of $22.590. It also reports that 9percent of rent control tenants earn 50 percentmore than the mean...
...Last summer Takeshita and Abe began negotiations to pool their votes on the condition that one scrap his candidacy in favor of the other. With the support of a third faction, the coalition would field a total of 231 votes. But talks bogged down. Last week three-way discussions with Miyazawa got nowhere. Meanwhile, Takeshita was well short of the 223 votes required to take the L.D.P. presidency. As party boss, the president automatically becomes Prime Minister...
When not teaching, Solow and his wife Barbara, an economic historian at Boston University (they have two grown sons and a daughter), divide their time between a waterfront condominium in Boston and a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. At the Vineyard, a 24-ft. sailboat is Solow's primary passion. He plans to use part of his $340,000 Nobel Prize money to equip the boat with a new Genoa jib. "I've been just a poor academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension...