Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might. But for Jefferson and his contemporaries, power was never the final joy. The ultimate pleasure was to be back among the places and people they loved. Jefferson's reward for service was not cheers or ceremonies but the opportunity to perfect his thoughts, use the language well, design a graceful structure, plan a garden ("No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden...
...design of the American Airlines terminal, the airport's busiest, was completed before new security regulations went into effect, making it impossible to screen passengers for various flights at one checkpoint. As a result, each loading gate has become a security gate, creating delay and confusion. Baggage-handling problems have been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees...
Maguire, who received a six-week extension of its contract, also faced the problem of evaluating a project of indefinite size and design. Because of rising construction costs and community opposition, the Kennedy Library Corporation withdrew the plans for the complex it had unveiled last year...
Architect I.M. Pei set to work scaling down the project and last week released a new design which eliminated an 85-foot-high glass pyramid and two 350-seat auditoriums. Pei also redesigned the complex in brick, to blend in with the colonial motifs of the Harvard Houses which are across from the site...
Although Pei has not drawn up a design for the building, he and Harvard officials have agreed upon an outline which calls for the construction of a six-story brick building in the northeast corner of the site. The structure will have a narrow rectangular shape, measuring 380 by 50 feet and will contain 160,000 sq. feet of floor space...