Word: demolishment
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...talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship of the world...
Labor has never flagged in its determination to wipe 14(b) off the books and thus demolish the remaining state right-to-work laws. Its main argument is that 14(b) undermines union security by allowing nonunion workers to get a "free ride," but that argument is weakening in a day when labor itself enjoys greater acceptance, wealth and influence than ever before. Opponents of repeal argue that labor is so powerful, in any case, that union security hardly hinges on getting rid of 14(b). Most important, they insist that compulsory unionism goes against the ingrained American idea...
Right now, the single most important factor to the anti-renewal forces of North Harvard is time. The BRA will almost certainly continue to demolish vacant homes on the site today, probably including some of the substandard that Harvard owned. The more structures that are demolished, the less likely it will be that claims that the neighborhood can be rehabilitated will stand...
...development by the ghastly gaps in his education. He was a magnificent "poetical" theorist, but his spelling was a sin and his math a calamity. Unable to make mathematical demonstrations, he was forced to execute physical proofs. Experiment was his instrument, and he employed it with prodigious ingenuity to demolish the world as science...
Although "under existing state and federal standards the area qualifies as 'blighted and decadent,'" the planners found "no compelling reason" to demolish the homes and said that "much of the apparent blight is due to superficial neglect and the absence of normal municipal services, such as paved streets and adequate street lighting...