Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge housing situation was getting to the critical stage. Harvard revived its plans for Shady Hill, both to aid younger Faculty hard-pressed to pay local rents, and as a way to take at least a little demand off the local housing market. The plans were of the same order of magnitude as those of 1955-approximately 150 units of housing...
...endowment at five per cent interest, Harvard officials point out that endowment funds currently gain about 7 per cent a year and argue that it is vital to keep this return high in an era when all divisions of the University are increasing their demands for funds. "If you take unrestricted money which is now earning interest and use it to meet operating expenses, you just increase the size of the deficit; it's a vicious circle." Wiggins says...
...Take the schools for an example. Estimates have been made that anywhere from only a few to over 300 new children will come from the 300 Shady Hill units into the Agassiz School which serves the district and now holds some 240 pupils. Just how many actually come depends on whether older or younger Faculty members live in the project, whether the Agassiz School retains its position as one of the leading grammar schools in the city, and whether, as one Agassiz parent puts it, "the parents don't accept the myths about the Cambridge schools and instead take...
...most part, PR's elimination of the winner-take-all character of most systems of district or at-large voting means that a minority of any appreciable size will obtain representation...
Just as Dunlop denies he is a Nixon man, so he denies the conservative label often pinned on him. "I've certainly never regarded myself as one," he smiles and looks really puzzled. "Take labor and management. No mediator seeks to defend his neutrality. You do your job. Unions won't like this, employers won't like that. I just worry about solving problems and persuading people .... Many years ago, when I was younger, I used to worry about criticisms of being anti-union or anti-employer. Now I know you should go about doing things the best...