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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advantages of employing nature's weapons (and this list is not by any means complete) are almost utopian: low fuel costs, low maintenance expenses and best of all--self-propagation. And let us not forget that design changes and improvements will likely result within just a few short generations. Goodbye to cost overruns, gold-plating and spare parts scandals. Hello to smaller military budgets and employment for every biology and zoology major in the country...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...helped design the 31 year-old concrete and steel girder bridge said erosion of its supports was probably the best explanation for the collapse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridge Death Toll Up to Three | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...bridge that is in good service for so many years does not simply fall down," said Lionel Pavlo, head of Pavlo Engineering Co. of New York City, which helped design the bridge in 1952. "I have built more than 1,000 bridges and this is the first time such a thing has happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridge Death Toll Up to Three | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...administrators who might wonder where the money would come from, there is an answer. The rents from the hangouts would cover at least part of the cost. The University could save some money by allowing students at the Graduate School of Design to redesign the hall. The GSD students would probably jump at the chance to design something that would actually be built and they probably know more about creating a space for student than any 60-year-old big-name architect...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Harvard Buildings: | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...money in it. That has changed. Nurseries are no longer just horticultural outlets. We have a patio shop, a Christmas shop, a florist, crafts, a do-it-yourself shop. This generation now, such better buyers! We have a diagnostic service with two horticulturists, a do-it-yourself design shop. After the war and Victory gardens, horticulture died, as far as I'm concerned. Then the back-to- the-landers brought vegetable gardening back in the 1960s. It took the mystery out of it. Light. Heat. Sun. The right spot. All you need. People got involved. Houseplants took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: A Flower Show | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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