Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm, so the four men sat for a while on the State Department's eighth-floor balcony, overlooking beds of red and yellow tulips. But the meeting was a good deal less pleasant than the surroundings. Across from West Germany's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg sat a grim-faced American duo: Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. After the four-hour meeting, Baker declared himself "furious" that the Germans had come...
...addition, community activists have argued that the proposed hotel would increase traffic in Harvard Square area and destroy the character of the area's neighborhoods. A downzoning petition currently before the City Council would halt that project by severly limiting the maximum height and floor area of buildings in the area...
Five days later, in a theater across town, a dozen masked youths with shaved heads invaded a concert of revolution-era songs. Crying "Long live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part of the spectacle," said Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the government's Bicentennial Mission. It wasn't. The singer was hospitalized, and President Mitterrand led the list of notables expressing outrage...
Realizing the momentous task ahead, FSLIC officials have made an attempt to become more savvy in their dealmaking. The agency's central-region division has taken over three blue-carpeted floors of a sleek office building in north Dallas, and is opening a ground-floor showroom to hawk its myriad properties. The 15-member sales staff is augmented by 100 private contractors and real estate agents who work for fees and commissions...
...specific case of the Fly Club property, we doubt that provisions to lower the allowable F.A.R. [floor-to-area ratio] to 0.75 from 1.75 encourage the preservation of a valued and (potentially historic building) that we can scarcely afford to maintain," states the letter, written by Fly Club Trustee Richard J. Lyman...