Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, two days later, in blunt defiance of previous warnings by Jimmy Carter against further Israeli colonization of occupied lands, Jerusalem announced that it would build still more settlements-a grand total of 35-in the occupied territories. Three are to be established immediately on the West Bank. The government's lame explanation for the decision: the new settlements were included in a plan approved by the previous regime...
...Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, as well as at scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring a nationwide re-examination of the Nazi past...
...surge in big merger proposals? Primarily, says Stephen Friedman, a partner specializing in corporate marriages at Goldman,, Sachs, because many managers of giant companies find that "it is cheaper to buy than to build." Their own companies are flush with cash, and as they look around for expansion possibilities, they find numerous companies not much smaller than their own selling for less than asset value per share-so that they can afford to make an offer well above market price and still pick up a company relatively inexpensively...
...time of the 1953 Bouvier-Kennedy wedding and glimpse the desk where a vacationing President signed several bills into law. "It would have been a terrible shame if they had concreted it and put in a music shell or something," says Sughrue. Nevertheless, he is planning to build seven luxury homes on the property-not to mention a concrete parking lot for the tour buses...
Playing Mudbone, the levee-tender, or Oilwell, the "dangerous nigger" who fights the cops, he lets the humor build up gradually as the audience understands the character he is impersonating-or is possessed by. "What Lily and I do transcends stand-up comedy crap," he boasts. "We make it theater. We involve the audience in truth because everything we do is real. Both of us are possessed when we are onstage. Yes, man, I'm talking literally. Possession...