Word: built-up
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...technical challenges were also substantial and often without precedent. Who knew, for instance, how to remove built-up layers of paint and coal tar from the statue's delicate 100-year-old copper interior? The Lehrer-McGovern construction-management company has had to manage a considerable logistical feat: on Liberty Island alone, they coordinate the work of four different architectural and engineering firms, dozens of individual contractors and, during the 2 1/2 years of construction, some 500 craftsmen and hard-hat workers...
Wolf said she and the other CCA incumbents are particularly concerned with the issue of development, and will continue to block proposals that would allow North Cambridge to become as built-up as Mass. Ave from Harvard to Central Square...
Ward has to tilt back in his chair to see all 6 ft. 1 in. of this guy who strides in under a 150-watt smile. Built-up shoulder pads in the suit. Wide lapels. Close-cut hair. All standard for the year. But there is something different. Ward decides to try to get him in the movies. History changes, though Ward hasn't an inkling -- or does...
...chats along the back fence. They may not understand each other, may not even like each other much, but somehow they see each other all the time. That kind of attachment has grown up between the Jacksons, a shy, stiff couple who live with their adolescent daughter in the built-up London suburb of Ruislip, and their Canadian-born neighbors, the sunny, boisterous, intrusive Krogers. The families pop into each other's houses, exchange presents, share holidays. So long as they accept each other at face value, the relationship works. But when they stop to examine what they really know...
...frequent and close meetings with Bashir Gemayel, the Christian Maronite warlord who was assassinated only nine days before his scheduled inauguration as Lebanese President in September 1982. In Shiffer's account, Bashir asks Sharon if Israel would object to the Lebanese sending in bulldozers to flatten "the built-up areas," four weeks before the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. Sharon's reply: "This is not our business...