Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city zoning map was last redrawn in the early 1960s, and many of the decisions made then are still reflected in the current zoning code, said Hugh Russell, a Cambridge architect and co-founder of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. In 1976, a rezoning project was launched and pursued for several years, but the city...
...fought a house-to-house battle against the Islamic defenders. When the siege ended seven hours later, the Israelis counted 40 Shi'ites and three of their own dead. Before heading back to Israel, eleven miles away, the invaders reduced Maydun to rubble, wiping the town off the map...
...idyllic climate, high- powered athletics, a healthy endowment and a commitment to academic excellence combine to make Palo Alto one of the hottest spots on the map of American higher education -- and a major headache for admissions officers at rival colleges. Cornell University President Frank Rhodes calls it "one of the world' s great institutions...
...they view the program's socializing function as more important than the academic instruction. At times, however, the two become virtually indistinguishable. Freed recalls one Monday when he and an inmate were reviewing the social studies segment of a GED exam. "He couldn't find America on the map. We put aside the book and just talked about the basic principles this country was founded on," Freed recalls. "These were new ideas to him, and finally he said, `Wow, this is really neat...
...presidency to go on the stump and bring down the house. The remarkable display is not merely of will but of his mind. The swirling patterns of the world, the manipulating strategies his mind delights in. The Soviets, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nicaraguans, NATO; he adores the map. He would play with it still if he could. Temperamentally, he seems more the monarchist French diplomat than the Republican American, yet he understands his country in his bones, half cynically, half naively, much like Gatsby. The only thing that Nixon did not understand is Nixon. (Talk about funny!) Perhaps...