Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That lesson has prevented Harvard from proposing for Mt. Auburn St. another Holyoke Center, a building that residents consider far too tall and massive to co-exist peacefully with the rest of the Square. For the past five years, neighbors have fought developers who sought to construct a Holiday Inn and a high-rise apartment building on the edge of the Square...
...Reagan was addressing almost 3,000 delegates to the Chicago convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-and union officials currently rank not far behind black and feminist leaders in expressing dismay over the Administration's course. "He has cut out every social program we have fought for over the last 40 years," exclaimed Roy Klein, a convention delegate from South Bend, Ind. Boston Delegate Andrew Sarno added: "I don't think he should have been allowed to come here...
...hotel's owners suddenly began hacking away at the carved wood and plaster walls on the ground floor, less than a quarter of the guest rooms were occupied. The 200 guests had every right to be startled by the demolition. But from the band of local preservationists, who fought a losing three-day legal battle to stop the demolition, the shock was a mockery: they learned in May that the owners planned to strip the 26-story Biltmore and convert it into a bank headquarters. Keepsake nostalgia for the 68-year-old hotel did not impress its proprietors...
...career soldier who fought in Korea before becoming Thailand's supreme commander, Kriangsak was involved in four coups, the last of which brought him to the Prime Minister's office in November 1977. Trading his camouflage fatigues for pinstripe suits, he evolved into a democrat and statesman. He abolished press censorship, hiked the minimum wage, offered amnesty to Communist insurgents and organized free elections under a new constitution. He also pulled off a tricky diplomatic balancing act, improving relations with Communist neighbors in Hanoi and Phnom-Penh while strengthening Thailand's ties with Washington...
...Mayor William Donald Schaefer. "I I know that sounds silly." It does not sound the least bit silly to his constituents. In the worst and best of times since he was first elected ten years ago, the balding, portly (5 ft. 9 in., 186 Ibs.) executive has doggedly fought city hall sloth, inefficiency, arrogance and red tape. He believes that the city's neighborhoods, with their rich ethnic mix, are Baltimore's greatest asset. He has extracted some $55 million for housing and development beyond the city's federally mandated entitlements of about $240 million from Washington...