Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't set out to make it look like a hoagie," says Badanes, appearing only slightly guilty about it all. "It just sort of turned out that way. But I have to admit it's kind of ironic. The guy's a heart surgeon, and we go and build him a house that looks like a cholesterol lunch...
...Princeton University during the counterculture days of the 1960s, the Jersey Devil is a traveling band of renegade architects who rejected standard careers to design the really far out and then, in an even more radical break with modern architectural practice, get out the saws, hammers and nails and build these unusual structures themselves. Since their first project, a child's play structure built to resemble an enormous cockroach, they've painstakingly assembled twelve houses, from San Francisco to New Hampshire, parking tents, trailers or makeshift cardboard homes on site so they could live there as they worked, encouraging clients...
...extended bargaining over construction. By 1972 a compromise had taken shape. The interior decoration and finishing of each compound would be overseen by the country's own teams, but the major construction would be the responsibility of the host country. The intelligence community balked at allowing the Soviets to build the embassy's walls. But President Nixon, who was pursuing a policy of detente with Moscow, instructed the State Department to cut the deal...
...with the latest computer and scientific hardware, regardless of price. At the University of Chicago, the $225,000 allotment that covered equipment for physiology and biology research ten years ago has grown to $1.4 million. Moreover, universities must scramble to replace outdated facilities. Says Northwestern's Weber: "We have buildings here that cost $1 million to build 80 years ago, and cost $5 million just to repair." And books are not any cheaper. To maintain its library, Northwestern orders 29,000 periodicals a year at a cost approaching $2 million. Other uncontrollable costs include insurance and utilities. Emory University...
...years ago, the nation's leaders have always expressed their willingness to negotiate directly with the leaders of any neighboring Arab state. But during the past few years there has been a series of frustrating disappointments, as the Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians attempted to orchestrate a reasonable plan to build upon the partial successes of the Camp David accords and the subsequently negotiated peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. With U.S. leaders now standing more aloof from the process than was the case during previous Administrations, no progress has been made. Recently, however, there have been clear moves toward...