Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a fiery presentation from Fogg Museum director Seymour Slive, the commission members could not understand why the University needed to demolish a century-old house to make room for the museum's expansion. So they refused to grant a demolition permit...
...highly-skilled agent provocateur, as when she goes undercover to write a piece on a New York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist...
...former see at Kisamos fell vacant. The bishops of Crete, who, with approval of the Patriarchate, elect their fellow bishops, promised that they would reinstate Eirinaios. But last June they chose another man. Two hours later the people seized the episcopal residence in Kisamos and threatened to demolish the building if anyone but Eirinaios tried to take office...
...University's strongest legal bulwark was swept away last weekend. The battle to repeal Harvard's zoning exemption was by no means a rout; traditionally, churches and schools have been excused not only from taxes but from zoning as well, allowed to expand, build and demolish where they please. Cambridge, pointing to maps showing the city with more than 50 per cent of its land institutionally-owned, won the right to limit institutional conversion of property two years ago. That privilege came with only one string--Harvard was not to be included. The men who wrote the state's constitution...
Several developers, who say they had planned to demolish before the ordinance went into effect, have tried to avoid the permit process in recent months. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is seeking to demolish a Blanche St. home and several other city landowners, will now have to apply for the permits...