Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge St. overpass--When Harvard built the overpass connecting the Yard to the Science Center and donated the resulting tunnel to the city, Cambridge thought it was getting a break. But once the tunnel started to crack and leak, causing maintenance headaches and traffic problems, they weren't so sure...
Cooper and Nelson weren't satisfied with the verdict, though, and went to the board with a long list of complaints last month. They alleged that they hadn't been notified of the hearing--a complaint the board dismissed--and that Harvard had failed to find them new apartments and inadequately maintained their homes at Sumner...
...long day the tracksters put in inside Barton Hall-the vacuous gym which Crimson hoopster Tom Mannix once cheerfully dubbed "the airplane hangar"--as trials began early yesterday morning and finals weren't over until well into the evening. Having just recently run against and beaten Ivy foes Brown, Dartmouth and Yale, the Crimson began the day with a certain amount of confidence, tempered somewhat by an equally recent shellacking at the hands of Princeton. But revenge just wasn't in the lineup yesterday as Harvard won the events it had previously won against the tenacious Tigers, but could...
...fourth avenue open to the black black woman is excellence in a career. Since in the South the field most accessible to such women is education, a great many of them prepared to become teachers. But here, too, the black black woman had problems. Grades weren't given to her lightly in school, nor were promotions on the job. She had to pass examinations with flying colors or be left behind. She had to be overqualified for a job because otherwise she didn't stand a chance of getting it-and she was competing only with other blacks...
Last week the terrorists appeared in court for sentencing, thoroughly shackled but still defiant. Most, like Ringleader Carlos Alberto Torres, 28, shouted "Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" Carmen Valentin, 34, a former Chicago teacher, threatened Federal Judge Thomas R. McMillen: "If I weren't chained, I'd try to take care of you right now." For his part, McMillen told Ricardo Jimenez, 24: "If there were a death penalty for these crimes, I'd impose it on you without any hesitation."Depending on how unrepentant he found each to be, McMillen handed down sentences ranging from...