Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Virginia's Fairfax County school board decided to build an innovative, energy-saving school. Blueprints called for a partly solar-powered building, buried underground so that the heat generated by students, lights and machinery would not escape. When the board took its plan to the federal Energy Research and Development Administration in search of a grant, it got nowhere. Then, a Washington consultant for Saudi Arabia, who had read about the school, asked the board if it would be interested in a "private" investment. It was, and a $700,000 grant from...
...classic components of a disco arrangement, though the sounds and inspirations seem to originate elsewhere. Bowie's mellow but beautifully articulated baritone contrasts with his high sharp "rock" voice. The cut has brief moments when the musical concept seems to jell, but ultimately there is little sense of build or progression...
...doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with government aid, told McWhirter: "There was enough left over from the compensation to build the big Buddha image at the temple. Officials seem more polite. This village is ready to be progovernment." Heavily guarded government teams are also hacking out roads through the forested valleys of the northeast to bring goods from remote villages to market-and allow troops easy access for anti-guerrilla...
...traditional Roman Catholic doctrine that Jesus Christ appointed Peter as the first Pope ("You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church"), and that the papal succession has continued unbroken ever since. The 20-member commission's statement, completed at a meeting last summer in Venice, skirts the dogmatic problem by describing the papacy as a position of leadership that evolved to meet the needs of a growing church. It says that the see of Rome originally became "prominent" because both Peter and Paul died in that city, and it "eventually became the principal center...
...must build a solid base to work at tapping a broad coalition of voters which will allow us to effectively pursue our goals," Lange said...