Word: vacant
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...units] become vacant, we plan to rent them out to Harvard affiliates," Speigelman says. "I don't see that as necessarily...
...racially integrated, multi-denominational Cambridge in 1846. He served to link the three towns into a single city, despite the political, cultural and economic differences existing among them. Since then, Cambridge politics have been far from unified, a situation which has often left the mayor's office vacant. Warren M. Little '55, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Society, notes, "It isn't the first time Cambridge has been without a mayor. The fact that the system can carry on and work is what's important." Cambridge is functioning, yes. But without a mayor it is not functioning very well...
...good thing about monuments is they commemorate the past. Last year the city inaugurated a Community Oriented Policing Squad (COPS), now headed by Compass, a name so foursquare no novelist would dare invent it. With secondhand furniture and federal money, police set up round-the-clock substations in vacant apartments at three of the city's most deadly projects. The 45 cops assigned to them work foot patrol, get to know the law-abiding residents and sweep out the street dealers. They also help pick up trash, combat graffiti and round up kids who play hooky...
Hill was expected to fill the vacant position along with senior Tarlin Ray, but when Ray was sidelined by an injury, Hill stepped...
Harvard, which currently owns five percent of Cambridge's formerly rent-controlled apartment units, plans to raise the rent of 600 units and to rent vacant units only to Harvard affiliates. Harvard has volunteered to set aside 10 percent of its units for low income tenants. Community leaders, however, have maintained that the 10 percent figure...