Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...surprised you devoted so much space to the anguish of the inept fraternity of pollsters [Dec. 11. When will these snoopers wise up to the fact that it is nobody's business how a person intends to vote? Many of us delight in never giving a pollster a straight answer...
...union: "We believe that negotiations are the best way to meet understandable worker demands and defend social interests." After months of steadily intensifying demands, Solidarity's leaders late last month declared a moratorium on strikes and urged the impatient rank and file to give the government some breathing space. Not only was the strike moratorium being heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more militant locals were sounding almost repentant. The Warsaw branch said talk of a general strike had been a "mistake"-despite the fact that the workers' pressure won the release of two imprisoned...
Harvard won a two-year battle with tenants in a Summer Rd. apartment building last night when the city's rent control board voted to permit the University to convert the homes into office space for the Graduate School of Design...
...city's Rent Control Board is expected to give its final verdict tonight on the University's two-year-old attempt to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Rd. and convert the property into office space for the Graduate School of Design...
Strouse occasionally indulges in unnecessarily long asides about the lives and works of Alice's brothers. She spends a good deal of space discussing William's ailments, which faintly resembled those of his sister, and she frequently looks for parallels between Alice and the characters in Henry's fiction. Her digressions are often interesting, and may be unavoidable since far more information survives about the brothers. Still, they seem needlessly detailed in a biography about their sister. One gets the faint impression on occasion that Strouse became slightly bored with Alice's nervous attacks, and would have preferred to continue...