Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Across the Charles River, Boston Mayor Kevin White announced that HUD had granted only $16 million of a requested $76 million in urban renewal funds for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA).
"It is clear that the Nixon Administration has turned its back on metropolitan Boston," said White, citing the NASA closing and HUD's rejection of BRA requests for seven partially completed projects.
Among the housing projects that will be affected by HUD's decision is a 6-acre project on North Harvard Street in Allston, Work on 212 units of moderate and low-income housing began there recently after a long and intense eviction battle.
The demands of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) have been partially met by the recent ratification of new contracts between Harvard and the five maintenance unions represented here-including a contract providing a mechanism for the promotion of painters' helpers.
The contracts have been ratified by all groups represented except for a group of laborers, who rejected their contract primarily because it provided a pay raise of only 65 cents an hour, compared with raises of 92 cents and $1,02 in skilled trades.