Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threshold of a period of national reconciliation that would be given impetus by the unique opportunity for creativity I saw ahead. Only rarely in history do statesmen find an environment in which all factors are so malleable; before us, I thought, was the chance to shape events, to build a new world. I was grateful for the opportunity I had enjoyed to help prepare the ground. And I was at peace with myself, neither elated...
Faith has provided the motive force for mankind's checkered odyssey. But how does one dream in a technocratic age? How do a people regain the faith that caused small peasant societies to build cathedrals with spires reaching toward the heavens, edifices that it would take centuries to complete, enshrining in stone a testimonial to the perseverance and sweep of their aspirations...
...fuel crisis. Says Caldwell: "Those gas lines did more than anything else to turn our industry upside down." But a major problem was what Henry Ford concedes to be "poor planning," and he accepts much of the blame. Four years ago, he said no to arguments that Ford should build a front-wheel-drive subcompact for the 1979 model year; front-wheel drive means shorter hoods, lighter weight and, consequently, less use of fuel. Concerned by the size of the investment gamble, Henry Ford demurred. That was a mistake. When the gas lines reappeared, and Americans shifted to small cars...
Athletics department officials said, however, that there were no plans to build a new facility for basketball...
...requests for the original consultants' reports, which they felt had found problems where the GSA summary dismissed them. Sensing a long-term court battle and feeling the steady crunch of inflation, the Library Corporation--whose representatives in Cambridge had tried unsuccessfully to placate resident' fears--announced it would not build both the museum and archives in Cambridge...