Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be unjust to look to the professors--or even to the personnel of Buildings and Grounds--to redress the slovenliness of Harvard's plant, and especially of the poor bedragled Yard. Those who scream loudest about the environment usually care about their own collectivity, and wire barriers and trash gardens and lawns of Oxford and Cambridge...
Cambridgeport was a major industrial area before 1950, but rising land prices and a new superhighway planned through the area forced many firms to relocate. The largest of these was the Simplex Wire and Cable Co.; which left 25 acres vacant...
...varsity lights suffered one of the more disappointing races of the day for Harvard. Billed as a race that would go down to the wire between the three boats. Princeton rewrote the script for the Goldwaithe Cup by making a move near the halfway point and then steadily increasing its lead, finally winning in open water...
...thing...And as you build these monstrous weapons of destruction, with the idea that they are somehow making you more and more secure, you come closer to the day of your own destruction. Anxiety neurosis is full of paradoxes like that." Of particular concern, he said, are "trip-wire" first-strike systems now being planned and deployed, which he called "paranoid" and "destabilizing...They are an invitation...
...From Wire Dispatches...