Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question hits a raw nerve. He's been asked this before, countless times, and resents being cast as the unwitting architect of Nixon's victory. He answers with poorly concealed distaste...
...nation's 27th largest life insurance company (assets: $1.2 billion), to help rebuild the city's blighted Laurel-Clayton section. Plumley decided to erect 430 units of low-and middle-income housing and invested $11.8 million of company loan and equity money in the project. He hired Architect Benjamin Thompson of Cambridge and told him to design a complex that would be "more than just another public-housing project...
...Authority proposed to sell 17 acres of land to State Mutual for $43,000, but FHA rules called for a minimum of $500 per dwelling unit, or $215,000. State Mutual managed to convince the bureaucrats that the costs of clearing the land would make the site adequately expensive. Architect Thompson wanted to preserve the natural beauty of the area's rolling hills, but FHA regulations specify walkways with grades no steeper than 8% to accommodate mothers pushing baby carriages. After weeks of haggling, the FHA finally assented to walkways with a 10% grade...
Once federal funding for the project is acquired, the Development Corporation expects to repay the loan. The money will pay for architect's preliminary planning fees and other early costs...
...case a clear victory for China's Premier Chou Enlai, author of that insistent 1949 telegram and architect of the outward-looking foreign policy that finally levered Peking into the U.N. For Chou, at 73, the vote was the capstone of a brilliant career. As the debate that ended in the expulsion of the Nationalists was drawing to a close in New York, Chou was entertaining the personal emissary of the U.S. President in Peking. When word of the outcome reached Peking (Henry Kissinger learned of it five minutes after he was aloft and homeward-bound in the presidential...