Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flourish, most scrape by and some die. This is as it should be. No magazine can rightfully ask for a handout or a federal grant. But both mass and specialty magazines can ask to be spared from radical changes in the rules of economic engagement, from cost increases that demolish all previous cost equations. It requires little imagination to predict what would happen to the hundreds of apolitical periodicals like Cat Fancy Magazine, Film Comment, Black Stars, and Turtle and Tortoise Monthly -as well as the mass-circulation magazines. The loss of any publication diminishes civilized tradition and shrivels belief...
...risk areas when private lenders had long refused to do so. "Our department has made mistakes," Romney said, "but we will not abandon the central city as so many have done." HUD, he insisted, will "not abandon even a single house-we either rehabilitate and sell it, or we demolish...
...marksmen-some were eight-year-old girls who were smaller than the rifles they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want to mobilize our country old and young. We would not attack first, but we are ready to mobilize to repel any intruders." But who? Americans? Russians? Japanese? Said...
...demanded that Harvard drop its plans to demolish certain low-income housing units on University Road and near the Medical School's Affiliated Hospitals Center. Faced with pressure from students and tenants--and embarassed by a clumsy lie by its President--the Administration changed its plans. The housing is still standing; in the medical area, moreover, continued agitation by tenants and medical students has forced important concessions to the tenants' union there...
Last week St. Louis' city planners got an official O.K. for their proposal to demolish two eleven-story units in Pruitt-lgoe, a mammoth low-rent black housing project located a few blocks from St. Louis' downtown section. Eventually the wrecker's ball will level most of the 31 other buildings...