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Word: vacant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasonable alternative to forcing parents to shell out $150 to $250 per night is for Harvard to make vacant dormitory rooms available to parents for a small fee, as many colleges around the country do and as Harvard does for alumni returning for their reunions...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Champagne Parties on Beer Budgets | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Cambridge city officials wanted to erect a structure on what Boothe described as "a beleaguered area" of "parking lots and vacant buildings...

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

Many have found success and prosperity in their new home. A decade ago, a 1 1/2-mile strip of Bolsa Avenue between Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, Calif., was a ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers In Paradise | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...never got the benefit of a long count, so that his opponent could later complain, as Tyson did, "I knocked him out before he knocked me out." Rocky never had his championship belt stripped from him, as Douglas had, hours after the fight, when boxing authorities declared the title vacant pending a review of the Douglas knockdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just Like in the Movies | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...said the first theft was reported on Jan. 10, but campus police said the burglaries took place between Dec. 24--the first day the dorm was vacant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass and Smith Join To Investigate Thefts | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

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