Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into tearing down expensive buildings," says Marston. "We try to negotiate equitable arrangements. In two instances where we felt developers were building too close to the sea and encroaching on public beach, we had them buy adjoining lots and donate them for public use, rather than forcing them to demolish their investments...
City Councilor Kevin Crane '72 said yesterday he asked Harvard officials for the space, which would become necessary if the city decides to demolish the branch library and build a new one. City inspectors last week condemned the branch, which is located on a storefront on Huron Ave, and owned by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, saying it was unsafe...
...that Viet Nam has come off much better. Hanoi's expansion into Laos and its invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on becoming gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo...
Gold has always had a particular fascination for Old World investors, who have learned from grim experience that wars, revolutions and political strife can demolish less durable forms of investment. In France, the lust for gold remains as strong today as it was nearly two centuries ago when the National Assembly tried to spend its way to prosperity by issuing 400 million units of a paper currency called the assignat. Within five years, 50 billion of the worthless scraps were circulating, gold had jumped 600 times in value, and hoarding proliferated, even though the government made efforts to deal...
...hall was completed in 1967, and soon restaurants and luxury condominiums on the nearby wharves began to bring young, career couples back into the city. In the pull-down-and-build-over-again spirit that has led to much urban blight, the city's first impulse was to demolish the old marketplace: the low, 535-ft.-long buildings, occupying 400,000 sq. ft. of prime real estate, seemed to have no place in a revitalized neighborhood...