Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showdown came at an emergency stockholders meeting demanded by De Benedetti and his allies, where more than 1,000 shareholders crowded into a carnival tent set up behind Societe Generale's elegant offices in Brussels. Despite a last-minute plea by De Benedetti, in which he argued that the 166- year-old conglomerate, best known as La Generale, needed better management, he was rebuffed...
Parks and Mangano said the Church of the Covenant helped the Tent City veterans to adjust to life in the apartments by providing "facilitators"--live-in supervisors and building managers for the donated housing...
...church has also bought food and paid the apartments' telephone bills with offerings taken for the former Tent City residents. Other helpers included Project Bread, which gave the tenants a grant for their initial expenses, and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, which provided them with furniture...
...Tent City veterans and their supporters have unsuccessfully sought a meeting with MIT President Paul Gray since November...
...caused the housing problem in Cambridge, and to the best of my knowledge MIT will not take any steps to help them," said James Stewart, one of several local activists who have cooperated to help the Tent City veterans...