Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, the Harvard hockey team's wallet was full. The Crimson had U.S. dollars. Canadian dollars and even a few Soviet rubles that Ted Donato and C.J. had brought back from Moscow over the winter holiday...
...producing countries, a spring flood of crude can be devastating. The last one, in 1986, sent prices plunging below $10 a bbl. This year another glut is surging forth, depressing prices of Persian Gulf crude from $18 a bbl. in December to about $13 currently. The causes: a warm winter in Europe and an increase in production among non-OPEC countries, ranging from Angola to Yemen...
...Herald's March 10 edition declared across the front page, "Fund feud may close homelss shelters." The article accompanying the headline blamed the "budget worries of the Dukakis administration" for the closing of the winter shelters and bemoaned the loss of 450 beds at a time when Boston is swamped with homeless people. However, the article did not describe the "fund feud" referred to in the headline...
Baker said the Winter Shelter Program was a temporary program for the heating season and that "from the onset, we were up front about the fact that this was only a temporary shelter." He said its closing was "no surprise," except to The Boston Herald. "It's not like some 800-pound gorilla came in and told us to shut it down...
...people called us about that article," Baker said, "Our response was, `look folks, we did what we set out to do.' For the first time we provided enough space, enough food, enough blankets for everyone in Boston to have a place this winter...