Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...
Heroes with names like Colt or Brick, halfnaked couples, willowy heroines, and ripping bodices are familiar to any romance novel fan. And with Valentine's Day fast upon us, many of these fans may be looking for something with a flowery title to counter those lack-of-love blues...
...could go on, but you see you are reaching your destination, so you decide to hit your date with the most impressive information of all: the Dead Sea Scrolls were at one point housed in Worcester, in a cabinet in a red brick house on Aylesbury St. As every good Worcester resident knows, a Lebanese family who lived in Worcester had possession of part of the Scrolls in between the discovery of the Scrolls in Jordan and their eventual return to Israel...
Roberto Barrera is out in the cold. "Todas las cosas en la cocina estan rotas," he says. Everything in the kitchen is broken. Shrouded in blankets, he is sitting on a brick fence across from Van Nuys High School. The school is putting people up, but he will not go indoors. As night falls and the temperature drops to 30 degrees, a rough rule has established itself: Anglos and blacks head for the shelters, while the fields and parks fill with Hispanics, mostly new immigrants, perhaps as many as 20,000. Many of them come from countries with a history...
...question all this raises is ominously familiar. Russia embraces reform more in theory than in practice. The nation needs a leader with the skills for the inglorious task of building institutions brick by brick, compromise by compromise. But the latest accumulation of electoral miscalculations and slide to the right makes people wonder whether Yeltsin is that...