Word: dome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene is irresistible: smiling children in colorful clothes running and playing while behind them, green rice paddies stretch to distant mountains illuminated by a splash of sunshine off the gilded dome of a Buddhist temple. It is hard to imagine how this scene could be the latest weapon of a despotic military regime which continues to rule the Southeast Asian nation of Burma. But the scene is as dangerous as it is irresistible...
Biggest blunders: Teapot Dome oil-leasing scandal; other instances of Administration graft...
Finally, the process began. I was moved up and into a claustrophobic cavern. It seemed white on the inside, but it was so dark that it was hard to tell. I was surrounded by a closed dome that was only an inch or two above my face. I began to wonder if my coffin would be similar. What would the traditional Jewish casket of plain pine look like from the inside...
Britain is marking the millennium by building a dome. ?Our dome, Britain?s dome,? said Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week, ?will be the envy of the world.? The contents of the $1.2 billion structure, revealed this week, include a 170-foot hollow sculpture of an androgynous human figure -- which visitors will enter at waist level and leave via the right leg -- and a ?dreamscape? across which visitors can travel on boats shaped like beds. Notwithstanding such Willy Wonka-esque attractions, many Brits remain skeptical. The rest of us will just have to live with our dome envy...
...Genzyme to construct a climate-controlled dome which will cover all areas within a five-mile radius of the yard. If we can land a man on the moon, how hard could it be to build a structure encompassing 415,000 square feet...