Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cagers have already stumbled out of the gate to an 0-3 start, including a five-point loss to Lafayette--one of the Crimson's rare victims a year...
After Connally, 69, failed to get out of the starting gate for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, he returned home with the idea of becoming what Texans call "big rich." He was already worth about $6 million -- cattle feed by local standards. But Big John saw no end to the twin booms in oil and real estate, and aimed to parlay his connections and powerful salesmanship into serious money...
...turned out that the Johnston gate guardhouse was five feet square, which worked out to a construction cost of $1,000 per square foot. So for $37,000, Rockbottom said, he could put up a building six feet square and have $1,000 left over to buy a toilet seat from the Air Force...
...name, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, hardly evokes the poetic resonance of the Golden Gate Bridge, its famous sister across the water to the west. And even though the Bay Bridge is six months older and, at 8 1/4 miles, almost four times as long as its glamorous relative, the span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant...
...hours a day that Boesky spent at home, he lived in baronial style. He and his wife maintain a costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...