Word: levins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been absent from the country for more than two years. The real reason, according to other assessments, was that Asuncion was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the unpleasant publicity generated by the Mengele association. (Not coincidentally, perhaps, the doctor had by then been the inspiration for two novels, Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and William Goldman's The Marathon Man, that had been turned into popular movies...
...they age, and the 76 million baby boomers, whose sheer numbers can turn a whim into a trend, are maturing. There is not much time for drinking in two-income households and little sympathy for hangovers. "I'm pushing 35, and I'm certainly drinking less," says Angie Levin, an Atlanta office worker. "In college, binges were pretty common, but as people get older, they have children and other responsibilities...
Working in "a tight spot," said Levin, did pose some problems. Without storage place, for example, materials could only be delivered as they were needed. Workers also had to make sure to use appropriate equipment, such as cranes without wide swings...
...weather, "temperature-wise it was cold, but snow-wise it was okay," said Levin. A yellow polyethylene canvas covering the building protected workers from the cold and allowed them to work through the winter...
Last year's Commencement also slowed construction down for a few days, Levin said, because workers had to "limit their operations to things that did not make a lot of noise...