Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people. This was mentioned time and time again by those involved in the Olympic effort: a security planning chief who can't conceive of going back to being a police division commander, the L.A.O.O.C. head of personnel who doesn't want to return to punching a corporation clock, even the receptionist who is unhappy at the thought of teaching school again. If they can put on the largest Olympic Games ever held, they say, how can they ever return to mundane jobs...
...restaurants and shops in a vast sunlit atrium that rises 215 ft. and has a floor two-thirds the length of a football field. Visible through the distant glass roof, past floors of balconied corridors where 800 federal workers have offices, is a dramatic view: the 315-ft. clock tower that presides loftily over Pennsylvania Avenue. Developer Charles Evans Jr., whose firm also was part of the team that refurbished the nation's oldest covered shopping arcade (1829) in Providence, is delighted with the result. Says he: "People should be able to enjoy monuments like this. The private sector...
...changes have been minimal. A $30 million restoration plan included replacing the metal roof tacked on in 1901 with a glass one like the original, and casting plaster-and-jute capitals to restore damaged columns. In the clock tower, ten enormous new bells, replicas of Westminster Abbey's, will ring out across Washington...
...pants are too short. The field is the regular 100 yards, but the chalk sidelines are uneven, hastily drawn and a bit spotty. The referees are there, too, in black and white striped jerseys, but when they feel that it's too cold for their comfort, the game clock starts to speed up a bit too quickly to escape a furtive suspicion...
...situation wasn't an exact parallel to last year's crucial game at Penn, when a roughing-the-kicker call on Harvard gave Quaker placekicker Dave Shulman a second chance, which he used to beat the Crimson with no time showing on the clock. But the lateness of the call--as Restic saw it--gave the visiting coach that deja vu feeling...