Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detailed "building audit" in the summer of 1986, the Faculty of Arts of Sciences pinpointed the necessary interior and exterior improvements, according to Director of Physical Operations Michael N. Lichten...
...bright sun of a northern winter can still turn the palaces and churches of Peter the Great's city into a feast of visual elegance. But beneath the sparkling exterior, the mood of the city's 5 million inhabitants is as frigid as the ice piled up in the Neva River. Slowly, less dramatically than during the 900-day siege by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, St. Petersburg is experiencing real hunger...
...reservoir for drinking water; others were used to cool the air pumped through the complex's massive mainframe computers to prevent them from overheating. Side tunnels were dug, and more than 20 cavernous offices were put in, some shored up with concrete. To withstand the severe exterior shock of a nuclear blast, the roof areas of the tunnels and rooms were reinforced with 21,000 iron bolts sunk 8 to 10 ft. into the rock, according to records at the National Archives...
...just goes to show that Cambridge's increasingly metropolitan exterior belies its quirky, small-town interior...
...enduring toughness, although it is cloaked in Yankee properness. "He set rules for himself for eight years as Vice President," explains one. "He never bragged about what he did for Reagan, he never criticized Reagan. He was tough as nails, but it was masked by many different exterior signals...