Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allman, a Florida-born journalist who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...
Three of the projects in the southwestern sector of the Square area make up a cooperative effort among three private developers to extend the shopping district and provide more office space. But the largest step in this renovation of the area is Harvard's decision to lease the Harvard Motor House to the same developers who built the Charles Hotel...
...five-time defending national and Ivy champion squash team will try to extend its Harvard record for most consecutive victories, which now stands at 58. The Crimson will be looking toward its JV team and freshmen recruits to hold off power-houses Franklin & Marshall and Princeton once again...
...will not abandon our friends in Central America." Secretary of State George Shultz then went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to plead for $270 million in new contra aid. The White House wants the funds to begin flowing shortly after the current aid expires Sept. 30 and to extend for 18 months, beyond the end of Reagan's term. Shultz did not specify how much of the money would be spent for weapons or what conditions might be attached to military funds. "We're doing what everyone says we should," he said. "We're consulting...
...Architect Kenzo Tange violated the native tenets of compactness with his grandiose plan for an improved metropolis that would extend out over Tokyo Bay. Today, at 74, he is still pushing it. But now Tange, the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, is at the center of another bitter controversy, over his design for new Tokyo metropolitan government offices. With a main section 797 ft. tall and an estimated construction cost of $780 million, this project would be the biggest, most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many...