Word: craned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last cycle, the figure went to $30 before the market became saturated and rents slumped, taking property values down with them. The time to start worrying about REITs is when a new development boom begins, probably years off. "Look around New York," Hash says. "There isn't a construction crane in sight...
Today Shanghai is one vast construction site. More than 20,000 projects, including 5,000 major ones, are under way as 27,000 companies build bridges, tunnels, flyovers, ring roads, hotels, villas, golf courses and public housing. The "crane," quips Vice Mayor Zhao Qizheng, should be designated the city's official bird...
Dickey was never enrolled in the obedience school of political correctness. He came from an earlier time, and anyway, his profoundly masculine imagination had a luminous, incorruptible autonomy. You may pick up traces of Walt Whitman or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings...
...Crane also argued that the commission lacked the authority to restrict standing capacity and promised an appeal...
Fitzgerald again disagreed with Crane...