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...This property is used for parking cars by some of the resident undergraduates at Harvard," wrote the club, adding that the parking lot is next to the land where the students live. The club also said it should pay the lesser rate because the parking lot is next to the University-owned portion of the garden, which is zoned residentially...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Clubs Follow Many Roads To Arrive at Lower Taxes | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...quality of the football has improved, but the strong teams, such as Kirkland, Leverett and Quincy, are hurt by combining with lesser teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Tackle Football League Ploughs on Despite Fewer Squads | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

...lifelong habit of recycling poses and motifs, patching them in. Thus he can be very deceptive: the image that seems the freshest product of observation turns out to have been used half a dozen times before. Degas copied everything from Mantegna to Mogul miniatures, and even the work of lesser painters than himself; an artist, he said, should not be allowed to draw so much as a radish without the constant habit of copying the Old Masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...didn't want to beat a lesser opponent," McElreavy said. "We wanted to beat a good football team. And Princeton is a good football team. Princeton is still capable of winning the Ivy League championship...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Forty-Four Games Later, a Victory | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take the EEOC "seriously." The lease may just send the wrong signal to Congress, which is considering legislation to encourage agencies to move to the less expensive suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucracy: Putting on The Ritz | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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