Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students build shanties in Harvard Yard under the watchful guard of campus police. University officials decide to allow them to remain standing, saying the structures are an expression of free speech. The students take down the shanties several days after Commencement ceremonies...
...which will finance four hydroelectric, coal, steel and oil-exploration projects, the two countries signed agreements expanding consular facilities and cultural programs, including a Festival of India for the Soviet Union similar to the one that traveled to the U.S. last year. Gandhi turned down a Soviet offer to build two nuclear power plants. India already has the capability to build them and wants to avoid dependency on Soviet nuclear-fuel supplies. Indian officials took a cautious line on a Soviet offer to provide military equipment to counter any Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft that Pakistan might acquire from...
...attendance. Igelbrink will miss three rehearsals this month because of business travel. An alto has a conflict with a Chinese language class, and another has been out speaking to Hispanic groups for the Republican Party. But the professionals always show up; they need the income while they ! struggle to build performing careers...
...Usually when you build a new museum, you go get some new land," Aulenti says. "To build, you must have land. Here, this old building was my new land. There are two ways to look at an old building: historically, as a monument or structure, and geographically. My way is geographic." No internal structure could abolish or convincingly mask the "geographic" form of the Gare d'Orsay. Instead, Aulenti set out to work with it as a given fact, making a new building that encourages constant reference to the old while scrupulously reflecting in its layout the narrative lines...
Industry experts predict that Northrop's earnings could dip by 50% this quarter as the company absorbs the costs of closing down the F-20 project. Disappointed but undaunted, Northrop officials maintained that the F-20 experience would help the firm win a contract to build a more advanced jet fighter, for which the Air Force has made a preliminary $691 million commitment...