Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unites a large suntan piazza, a luxurious office building for the British Columbia government and a seven-story courthouse covered with a shimmering glass roof that is one of the biggest (53,000 sq. ft.) of its kind in the world...
...greatest public attraction is the piazza named Robson Square, after 19th century British Columbia Premier John Robson. A summer mecca for alfresco lunchers and outdoor shows by dance and theater groups, the square has two indoor theaters, three restaurants, a cosmopolitan food fair, an exhibition hall and an outdoor ice-or roller-skating rink. From the eastern end of the square, zigzagging tiers of steps lead through a sylvan setting to the government office building, which has rooftop pools and waterfalls tumbling over large picture windows. The building's 127,000 sq. ft. of open office space (for only...
...industrial nations have the biggest bullion stocks, in terms of tons and also as a percentage of total reserves, so they gain most from a gold boom; the poorer states, with relatively meager holdings, benefit much less. Says an official at the British Ministry of Overseas Development: "We have a new category of haves and havenots. The Less Developed Countries, as usual, are suffering the most...
...talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what the first issue is not. It is a feature magazine, and not an especially good one at that." Said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans: "There is less of a feeling of a window on the world than TIME or ... various British Sunday papers...
...overstuffed with talent that one at first expects an epic of Homeric proportions. As it gradually turns out, Director John Schlesinger has a trifle up his sleeve, not a bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts and put their brains on hold. Admirers of Schlesinger's weightier efforts-Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday-should trim their sails accordingly...