Word: swaps
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...Notwithstanding Harvard’s shady dealings in the original acquisition of Allston property during the nineties, the University led by President Drew G. Faust has been extremely receptive to the community’s needs and desires. In a land-swap deal with the owners of the Charlesview apartments, a low-income housing complex that sits on a plot of land central to the development project, Harvard has demonstrated that it had come full circle in its dealing with Allston residents—as part of the deal, Harvard agreed to erect highly subsidized replacement housing units nearby...
...first Star Wars movie I saw was The Empire Strikes Back, and it rocked my kindergarten brain. At one point I had a modest collection of figurines, which mysteriously disappeared in the Trail of Tears Winters Sibling Room Swap...
...year fixed deal with a modest deposit rose to 6.94% in April from 6.6% the previous month. Annual inflation in the U.K. hit 3% in April, well beyond the government's 2% target, making further cuts soon highly unlikely. The central bank offered in late April to swap around $100 billion of lenders' old mortgage debt for safer government bonds, but the effect on the housing market has been muted. "It certainly isn't going to reverse all the changes in lending policies we have seen in recent months, or restore mortgage lending to its former levels," Iain Cornish, chairman...
...program administrator at the Women’s Center. “You see people coming in with multiple suitcases.” Natasha S. Alford ’08, an intern at the Women’s Center and a veteran organizer of the event, revived the clothing swap after hearing about the idea from one of her past teaching fellows, Amanda M. Bagneris ’99. Bagneris was part of a group of women at the College in the 1990s who put on a similar event with the same name, before Harvard had a Women?...
...Globe reported that Harvard had bought 52 acres of land in Allston under a subsidiary with a different name—an action that residents still refer to as an example of Harvard’s underhanded approach to expanding. Neighbors also point to Harvard’s land swap with the owner of the Charlesview Apartment complex—where the University will fund development without involving themselves in the actual development planning—as another instance of Harvard’s head-in-the-clouds approach...