Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, Harvard Real Estate (HRE), which manages the University's non-academic holdings, reached a settlement with a gay student and the Boston Fair Housing Commission to disregard marital status and sexual orientation in permitting the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in University-owned housing...
...settlement reached this week between HRE, the Boston Fair Housing Commission and graduate student Christopher H. Stewart requires the University to disregard sexual orientation when deciding whether to allow the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in affiliated housing...
...Such characterizations are lopsided. They disregard the assignment President Reagan gave me -- to reduce the size and the cost of Government while helping the most needy -- and they bypass my achievements. When I became Secretary, HUD's assisted-housing debt was expected to reach $250 billion by 1983. We stopped that at $244 billion and turned it downward to about $200 billion by the time I left office. But we were able to do more with less. We substantially increased the amount of housing for the needy...
...Gibson) in Lethal Weapon 2 and Her Majesty's secret servant James Bond (Timothy Dalton) in Licence to Kill. Both men are rogue avengers, out for bloody justice against cartels that have killed or threatened their partners and spouses. Both pictures, with their suavely depraved drug lords and curt disregard for constitutional safeguards, play like extended episodes of Miami Vice. Both scenarios choose their villains from the current list of least favored nations: South Africa in LW2, a thinly disguised Panama in Licence. "Remember," Bond's nemesis (Robert Davi) warns the film's Noriega, "you're only President for Life...
...others thought the University had broken the stereotype of institutional disregard for the interests of the local community after it successfully completed a five-year master plan," reads part of a staff editorial in yesterday's Allston-Brighton Citizen. "But then reality sank...