Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...cited Pietro Belluschi, consulting architect for the center, and Salvatore Luria, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology and director of the MIT Cancer Research Center, as examples of Italian-Americans making important contributions to Americans society. Ussia says, "Nobody knows about these people, but we certainly know about the others...
...professionals moving into the city don't share the concerns that form the basis of existing political alignments. The Independents depend on familiarity, friendships, and the old order. Their votes come from the same places every year. And because the networks of their power are woven among those who know and remember, they will be hard pressed to win support from those whose memories center on the suburbs. Meanwhile, the liberal activists have concerns in some ways antithetical to new residents. They oppose condominium conversion, favor rent controls, and thus are fighting the wave of gentrification these new residents...
Robert D. Lewis, executive vice-president of Lesley, attributed the conflict to ignorance. "We essentially didn't know one another existed in terms of major interests until about three years ago," he says, adding, "We knew there was a Cambridge Agassiz group, but it was then caught up mostly in confrontations with Harvard...
...know, and I know, that the Red Sox will never win another World Series, ever. It would spoil the cathartic effect of a Boston season. Sox fans are able to face the unpleasantires of the New England winter only after being reassured that no one can fall as far or as hard as the unhappy clowns of Fenway have every year since...
...full-time employees on his staff, and lately most have been at work on an ambitious development program, aimed at the Alewife and Simplex areas and East Cambridge. "We are setting a policy for the city; we are telling businessmen, 'We want you to expand.'" Vickery says. "To know the city is willing to pay for streets, for drains, for curbs--that's a big thing for a company...