Word: highes
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However, University planning officials said that while the new zoning severely limited the size of new construction on the lot, it does not alter the types of structures that Harvard can build. The new zoning allows for a building 45 feet high with a total floor area of 52,500 square feet...
Gorbachev's experiment in rambunctious parliamentary democracy adjourned, with moments of high drama to the very end. At the closing session of the Congress, Andrei Sakharov and Gorbachev squared off against each other. Sakharov called for removal of the constitutional provision giving the Communist Party the "leading role" in Soviet political life, while the Soviet leader accused the Nobel Peace laureate of trying to "belittle" the new parliament's achievements. There were also painful disclosures about the dreadful state of the Soviet economy. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted that some 40 million Soviets, or 13% of the population, live below...
Readers usually get their first impression of anthologies from high school or college English classes; the assigned texts are there to be studied, not enjoyed. But of course many collections can be read with pleasure, as this one engagingly demonstrates. William Trevor, the distinguished Irish novelist and short story writer, understands his compatriots' love of tale telling, the anecdotal impulse that flourishes among people who savor the spoken word. In his brief, informative introduction, he notes, "English fiction writers tend to state that their short stories are leavings from their novels. In Ireland I have heard it put the other...
...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...
...Channel One in six schools around the country were generally well received. "We saw positive changes in our students," reports principal Stanley Jasinskas of Eisenhower Middle School in Kansas City, Kans. "They became much more knowledgeable, and they took positions on issues." Elaine Green, assistant principal of Mumford High School in Detroit, says, "The teachers, the students, the parents were all pleased with the quality and content of the show." With educational leaders and school personnel apparently divided on the merits of the program, the battle over Channel One may have just begun...