Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter how much artillery fire they poured into Khiyam-and the bombardment reached a thousand rounds a day -the Israelis could not dislodge the defenders. At the height of the action, 200 Israelis faced about the same number of Palestinians. Both sides fought bravely, but on that battleground the Israelis would have needed a lot more soldiers than they had to dislodge the Palestinians...
...Chinese tied the first game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial, and the Chinese players eagerly pumped their visitors about AstroTurf and the height of buildings in Manhattan. The curious Chinese will soon find out for themselves. They arrive for a five-game U.S. tour next week and are scheduled to play the Cosmos Oct. 8 on the AstroTurf at Giants Stadium...
...meeting last week, five members of the board expressed their desire to down-zone the land, which would lower the maximum legal height of any building built on that site from 85 to 35 feet...
...RESPONSE to a petition requesting that Cambridge down-zone Harvard-owned property on Observatory Hill, which would affect future construction on the site, the Cambridge Planning Board made a recommendation Tuesday evening that the maximum height of any building be lowered from 85 to 35 feet. The City Council will vote on the recommendation after a hearing within the next few weeks, and the council, we hope, will support the community's protest against any future major construction, beyond the proposed athletic facilities, by Harvard in the area...
...recommendation, which will be sent to the city council some time next week, will request that the Harvard-owned land bordered by Garden, James, and Mason streets be down-zoned to have the maximum height of any buildings from 85 to 35 feet. The city council is the only governing body which can make a change in the zoning map, and the proposed change from a C-1 to a C-2 classificationmuy be approved by seven of the nine councilors...