Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The troops brought to the capital from all over China during the past few weeks are said to be loyal not to some central command but to various factions in the leadership. Thus while numerous units remained behind barricades, others, like the 27th Army, wreaked destruction in the city. Reports...
27--Harvard officials order the destruction of the Gulf Station on Mass Ave., seeking to avert the legal hassles that would ensue if the building were allowed to reach 50 years of age. The decision 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. oppose Harvard Real Estate's proposal to...
The last vision of Yellowstone most people carried into winter was far less bucolic. It was an image of immense walls of flame thundering across the canopy of lodgepole pine forests, leaping entire ridgelines in a searing specter of natural destruction that mocked man's effort to contain it. The...
In Richard III, Shakespeare wrote of armies tramping across medieval England, but the words could equally apply to the hordes of developers who in recent times have swept over London. Their relentless building has gone largely unopposed, even when it has demolished rich portions of the city's heritage. But...
Protesters have besieged the British government with pleas to save the sites. They have written letters, staged marches and held all-night vigils. Among the petitioners: Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dustin Hoffman and Princes Charles and Edward. Declared Tony Banks, a Labor Member of Parliament: "The destruction of these...