Word: glassing
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...families cowered in basements or sought safety in stairwells, bullets chipped angry patterns along walls and sliced through windows. Glass tinkled on the streets below. "It was worse than even the summer of 1982," said Jamal Solh, a housewife, referring to the Israeli siege of the Lebanese capital, when thousands of shells and bombs rained down on the city for several weeks. "We thought the world was coming to an end." In some districts, Amal militiamen conducted door-to-door searches for Sunni snipers. One Palestinian family of five was murdered by unidentified gunmen...
Townspeople elsewhere merely carp about glass boxes and pine for the architectural past. San Franciscans have taken action. Earlier this month the board of supervisors passed an elaborate set of rules governing development in the 470-acre urban heart. The new code, sponsored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, is more prescriptive and restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate...
...been sold by one mining company to another before being taken over by the present owner, the Prealpi Mineraria company of Bergamo, in 1980. The dam complex had consisted of two earthen dams that had created wash basins for filtering and extracting fluorite, a mineral used in making glass. Recent heavy thunderstorms were blamed for the immediate collapse of the dams, but some experts alleged that there might have been an excessive buildup of mud in the lakes from the mineral-extraction process. "Nature does not come into the picture," said Renzo Zia, president of the European Federation of Geologists...
...long ago, baseball was always played on real grass in the open air, and a strike was something a batter had three of before he was out. But at the artificial-turfed, fiber-glass-roofed Metrodome in Minneapolis, the site of this year's Major League All-Star game, the talk last week was about a different sort of strike. The outcome of the contest, a dull 6-1 romp by the National League' was overshadowed by the previous day's announcement that the players intend to walk off the diamonds on Aug. 6 unless they can resolve their differences...
...binge drinking and unsupervised house parties, "this doesn't get at the problem. Instead, it usurps parents' rights to raise and manage children in the way they see fit in their own home." He mentions, for example, that if a teenager visits a grandparent and wants to have a glass of wine with dinner as he customarily does at home, it would be against the law. And he is equally troubled by the nonspecific nature of what would constitute "reasonable cause" in those situations. "If police go up to a house and look through a window and see a bottle...