Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge ordinance designed to limit institutional expansion will probably control both the use and density of institution-owned buildings, a city planner said yesterday...
...developing a categorization scheme for types of institutions and for the type of use--how many people and cars it will attract," Don Balcom, the city official drafting the bill, said yesterday...
...into clear gems of human nature, we have to trust that the characters are the way they appear to be or are the way they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with very little, there is nothing more or less to believe...
...said the selectmen will probably ask to meet with MBTA officials hoping for assurances that Foster will spend the settlement appropriately. Locke added that the MBTA might use the funds for regular expenses and payroll accounts instead of providing better service...
Meanwhile, across the continent, a judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance...