Word: beacons
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...city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. "It wasn't like a Chinese garden with a rock here and a tree there...
...participants "obnoxious" and "disgusting" and that "they should get out of San Francisco." (On Monday, Leno issued a statement saying he regretted that some had interpreted his remarks to mean he didn't think people of different beliefs should come to San Francisco; the city was, he said, a "beacon of acceptance and love of all people...
Natural disasters have exposed not only our logistical incompetence, but also the deeply fractured state of American society. NCCC is a platform of practical help and a bright beacon of hope. Its activities, rather than being harshly cut at the height of their success, should serve as an inspiration and provide a model for expanded programs...
...people to give $500 each or 500 people to give $4 each... If you each raise $2000, we’ll eclipse the head start the insiders have.” Money may not be the only problem for the former Clinton justice department official. The other Beacon Hill hopefuls are all rapidly claiming the race’s political middle ground. Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey ’82 began distancing herself from current Republican Governor Mitt Romney back in December, when she announced her support for a law requiring all hospitals to offer emergency contraception...
Campaigning for the office once held by former Democratic presidential candidates Senator John F. Kerry and ex-Governor Michael S. Dukakis ’60, the group of Beacon Hill hopefuls expressed agreement on every issue that was raised—from universal health care to same-sex marriage—leaving the race to differences of character and style...