Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crews contracted by Beacon Construction are currently renovating Thayer Hall and erecting Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's new Rosovsky Hall. The Thayer gang, about 100 workers strong, can be viewed as a group of individuals with oodles of unique stories in their toolboxes...
Claude J. LeBlanc, as general superintendent for Beacon Construction, has supervised renovations and new construction all over Boston. But for LeBlanc, working in historic Harvard Yard on the Thayer Hall renovation has a special significance...
...know it. You've seen it. Lurking between Cambridge Trust and Au Bon Pain, all swathes of solid colors and square block fonts, the kiosk is a beacon to Harvard Square's newest arena of consumption, "The Shops at Harvard Yard." And while to most it may seem faintly amusing, worthy only of only a regretful shake of the head on the way to the Yard, this behemoth begs our attention...
...architect John Nash, and the worst by his pupil, Edward Blore. "Blore the bore," as he came to be known, took over the decoration of Buckingham Palace after Nash was dismissed by George IV's successor, William IV, for his "inexcusable irregularity and great negligence." Blore was a beacon of probity, but not of talent. His lack of it is why the east front of the palace -- the backdrop to the Changing of the Guard -- looks like a bank that got too big for its boots. He specialized in bland, thick architectural effects coupled with the sort of mingy "good...
Sources apparently within the SDI program told the Times that the 1984 launchings did not prove the efficacy of the heat-seeking infrared sensor. Rather, the target ICBM carried a beacon that guided the interceptor rocket toward a set-up collision. Officials involved with the test have vigorously defended the test results. Said General Eugene Fox, the retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes...