Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's shocking toll on the shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made of 8-in.-thick concrete slabs held together by metal hooks and mortar. Poorer Armenians, he says, tend to live in "very fragile, very deadly houses" made of unreinforced mud and rock. Yet geologists have long known that the region affected by the quake is interlaced with small faults in the earth's crust and has been shaken by dozens of serious tremors...
...audience with Gorbachev to revive the deal? Trump, who does not discourage talk of his presidential ambitions and who buys newspaper ads laying out his plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
...finished paintings only partly hides. "If ((drawing)) does not insist on its importance," writes the show's curator, John Elderfield, in his catalog essay -- as acute and satisfying a text as any critic in recent memory has written on drawing -- "it is because its importance is that of mortar between bricks, barely noticeable at times but what holds the structure together and keeps it firm...
Through her efforts, and through the media attention Hyland has been able to gather, a million-dollar Bicentennial Lighthouse Fund has been put into motion. It is the first "bricks-and-mortar" provision for historic sites to be enacted since President Reagan came into office, and it will all be directed to lighthouses...
Administrators say it is difficult to dip into the endowment to pay brick-and-mortar costs, because donors often earmark their gifts to Harvard for other projects. The Harvard Campaign, a recent fund drive, set a goal of $12 million for the houses and dorms, but raised only...