Word: demolishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman for the group, William O'Leary of East Boston, read a statement demanding several concessions from MIT, including the right to renovate three gutted houses next to the camp. MIT has announced plans to demolish these buildings, which have been vacant for 14 years according to the Tent City activists...
...Soviets claim to be. Gorbachev has called for reducing conventional arms to a level of "reasonable sufficiency." Said he: "In the European building, every apartment is entitled to protect itself against burglars, but only in such a way as not to demolish the next-door apartment." His top propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev, is even more forceful about cutting conventional forces. "We are prepared for the most radical steps along these lines," he told New Perspectives Quarterly, a California-based political journal. Encouraging words -- but in more than 13 years of negotiations with the West over mutual troop reductions, the Soviets have...
...20th century has been crueler to Berlin than to most any other major city in the world. In architecture as in politics, Berlin is a birthplace of modernism -- the kind of avenging romantic modernism that was determined to demolish the past and rebuild the future from scratch. And so again and again for a half-century after World War I, the city was razed wholesale for the sake of ferocious social ideas: first, the Utopian housing tracts of the 1920s; then the Nazis' megalomaniacal neoclassicism in the '30s; the devastating Allied bombing raids in the '40s; the redoubled, misguided urban...
...Agency will request from Congress to replace the compromised communications facilities and pursue other corrective measures. Meanwhile, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recommended by a 15-to-0 vote to tear down the bug-riddled chancery at the new U.S. embassy in Moscow. Said Committee Chairman David Boren: "Demolish that building while we still can." Building a new one would cost an estimated $23 million more...
...Commission first voted to let the building's owner, Jay Schochet, demolish the buildings. Schochet did not destroy the buildings then, perhaps because "the interest rates were too high to make the project work," Sullivan said...