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...into space like a giant diving board. The hope is that the stairway will become a gathering spot like the Spanish Steps in Rome. It won't have the advantage of being surrounded by Rome, but unlike the sunbaked and overcrowded Spanish Steps, it will have a sheltering overhang and a harbor view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: First Thinking, Then Building | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...emerged unscathed, while 9 Tastes was hit with a grand total of 12 violations. Even though one of these 12 included a failure to be “vermin proof,” patrons of 9 Tastes seemed unfazed and unaware as they strolled out from under the blue overhang on John F. Kennedy St. “The food is excellent and very reasonably priced,” one woman from Watertown said. “You can get a full lunch with soup, appetizers, rice, say whatever, for seven dollars.” Harvard?...

Author: By Julie Y. Rhee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 12 Health Violations? Bah! Those Nine Tastes are Delicious! | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...Second, just prior to the two oil-price spikes of the '70s, discretionary spending of U.S. households had become excessive?setting the stage for America's most severe consumer-led recessions. A similar overhang is evident today: spending for consumer durables and residential construction has averaged 14.3% of America's GDP over the past year. That's virtually identical to levels reached just before the energy-shock-induced consumption collapses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Price to Pay | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...investment cycle, so the venture capitalists are returning to their roots. But because new technologies aren't ripe yet or there's a lack of people to make companies out of them, venture investors are not putting their money to work as aggressively as they should. They have an "overhang" to the tune of $50 billion. Others are still overpaying for some investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Technologists: Start-Up Your Engines! | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...little more than a year ago, a group of Harvard students spent one freezing Friday morning huddled under an overhang in Boston’s Government Center in the company of several local activists. They were trying to disseminate information among the line of men clutching documents that snaked through the lobby of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Foreign Scholars Hindered | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

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