Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials have said that the University considers the current in-lieu-of-tax agreement fair and that it is willing to extend it. However, many city residents have complained that Harvard does not do enough for the city to justify the tax breaks it receives.
Spiegelman, a former head of the city's Community Development Department, said that both Harvard and the city were willing to compromise on a new agreement.
"It's a difficult issue right now," said Spiegelman. "The city has financial problems and the University has a lot of property. We are willing to help. But I think we are an inappropriate target to bail out the city. We want to be a player, but not in isolation...
Costner knew how to project and protect himself -- knew acutely who Kevin Costner was -- long before anyone in Hollywood cared. "He had total self- confidence from the beginning," says J.J. Harris, his agent from 1984 until this year. "I'm sure he's had it forever. He's a bigger...
But then Lieut. General James Abrahamson, the outgoing SDI director, said he would be willing to scuttle some important elements of Phase I in favor of a new technology, "Brilliant Pebbles." Initially, SDI had called for hundreds of orbiting "garages," each carrying ten killer rockets that would crash into oncoming...