Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commercial developers are planning to put high-rise luxury housing units in the midst of a community of mostly one-family frame houses. Under the present zoning regulations, there are no restrictions on building height and housing density may be as high as 144 units an acre...
...rezoning measure would limit new construction to 36 feet in height, in contrast to the present zoning, which allows 144-unit buildings and puts no limit on height...
...poet of Auden's quality can never be "washed out;" for what it's worth, Auden was the greatest living English poet even in his decline. But it's still unfortunate--for us--that he ever had to decline at all. When a great poet dies at the height of his powers, we must be grief-stricken to think of what the loss of even a single day may have robbed us. But when a great poet dies after lapsing into a "classic fatigue" we can be more temperate. We are only sorry this meant we had to lose...
...When the boy was in seventh grade and short for his age, he vigorously argued that he should be given hormone shots so that he would grow tall enough to dance with girls who had already sprouted. (The shots were denied him, but hi time he reached a height of 5' 10^".) Kathy, Jerry Brown's younger sister, watched sympathetically as her brother was raised in the penumbra of his father...
...were hoping for a really bold move by Ford on energy conservation," says David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth. "What we got was warmed-over Nixon." Indeed, Ford's program smacked mostly of old proposals that Congress had refused to pass even during the height of the Arab oil embargo...