Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Received a downzoning petition from the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association that would halt the University's plan to build a five-story hotel on the former site of the Quincy Square Gulf Station...
...Crimson (7-3 overall, 4-1 Metro League) came out strong against Amherst, needing only four minutes to build a 10-0 lead on trys by seniors Dave Bulger and Tim Perini and a Bruce Miller conversion. Despite amassing an early advantage and leading, 16-0, at the half, Harvard had a surprisingly difficult time with Amherst...
...think its possible to build inexpensive telescopes to discover comets and search for supernovas," Sadler said...
...often in developing nations the U.S. has inadvertently contributed to the environmental problem rather than the solution. In the early 1980s, the U.S. Agency for International Development helped build the Mahaweli Dams in Sri Lanka -- a multibillion-dollar construction typical of AID's past tendency to define development in terms of steel and concrete. The project has flooded forests and destroyed tea plantations. Washington's Environmental Policy Institute cites the dams as one of the 18 most destructive water projects on earth...
Battery Park City may be the ultimate in recycling: 24 acres of earth that were scooped out to build the giant World Trade Center a block away were dumped on the marshy edge of the Hudson River, forming the nucleus of a new 92-acre chunk of land. And -- hallelujah! -- the river, which most New Yorkers rarely glimpse, has been given back to the people, as Battery Park City embraces the wide and wonderful Hudson. The shore has been beribboned by a sculpture-studded esplanade, a mile-long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed...