Word: developer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After almost a year of negotiations, Harvard and a Roxbury non-profit development organization have nearly reached an agreement that would allow the organization to develop an 8.9 acre site now owned by the Medical School. University officials said yesterday...
...despite such high-profile events, Harvard continues both actively and passively to contribute to the lack of affordable housing in the city and to the problem of rampant homelessness. Harvard has blocked proposals and community-based zoning initiatives in the recent past. Today, the Corporation continues to purchase and develop land at great rates and gives back to the city little in the way of compensation for tax losses...
...also thinking of what we could do after Viet Nam. It was essential to have a new relationship with the Russians, have a new relationship with the Chinese, and I felt that at that time, early on, it would have made it difficult, almost impossible, to develop that new relationship had we declared war. It would have broken it off. In retrospect, I don't think so. In retrospect, I think we could have done it. And it may have been a mistake of judgment, but at the time, that's the reason I didn...
...outgrow casual attitudes toward brutality is wrong. Count on it: if you saturate young minds with materials showing that human beings are fit subjects for debasement or dismembering, the result will be desensitization to everything that should produce revulsion or resistance. The first aim of education is to develop respect for life, just as the highest expression of civilization is the supreme tenderness that people are strong enough to feel and manifest toward one another. If society is breaking down, as it too often appears to be, it is not because we lack the brainpower to meet its demands...
...white killer has been sentenced to death for the murder of any black victim, while 33 blacks have been executed for killing whites. Opponents of Kennedy's amendment, led by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, say it would outlaw the death penalty altogether, since it would force prosecutors to develop race-based evidence to prove they were not discriminating. "This would allow vicious killers to get off by talking about race," says Thurmond...