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Specifically, the study was aimed at developing a "zoning overlay district"--in other words, changing the Square's zoning restrictions to "temper the professional interest of developers...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: The City As a Sketchpad | 4/12/1990 | See Source »

...that point, I weighed 95 pounds. I had been losing weight steadily since the beginning of the semester, and often did not feel well. Her approval did not temper my dissatisfaction with my diet...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: The Body Monopoly | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

...Here is a man of great intellectual [merit],"said David Riesman '31, Ford professor of socialsciences emeritus and long-time Harvard facultywatcher. "Some men of that temper discover totheir astonishment that they like raising money.This doesn't seem to be Mike Spence...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Spence Resigns to Take Stanford Post | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...more point about Gorbachev. I compare him to Khrushchev. Khrushchev was not well educated, but he was smarter than Gorbachev and quicker than Gorbachev. But Khrushchev had a fatal weakness. He was rash. Gorbachev is not rash, but he does have a temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Richard Nixon: Paying The Price | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...hopes that the first-year students choosing their majors have learned their lesson well. Sociology seems to have lost its mind, as well as its temper, at an inopportune time and in a very unfortunate fashion...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: The Master's Disaster | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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