Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Graves, designers of a new city hall for Portland, Ore., said an architect's job is to build, adding, "architecture isn't about politics any more than politices is about architecture. Architecture is invention...
...rummaging for returnables in trash cans and parking lots; Adalbert ("Al") Politz, 56, of Bloomfield, Conn., made enough sorting through nearby Hartford's refuse last year to buy his son a Christmas present and give a handicapped friend $60 worth of knitting yarn. The Miller family of Portland, Ore., has found bottle collecting even more profitable. Foraging for Coke bottles along a state highway last February, they found 149 crisp $100 bills scattered by the road. When no one laid claim to the cash after six months, it was Miller time to the tune...
...known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European neighborhoods...
...restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...
DIED. Gregory Breit, 82, Russian-born physicist who took part in research leading to the first atomic explosion in 1945, and seven years later affirmed theoretical evidence downplaying the possibility that the hydrogen bomb might cause a "runaway" superexplosion; of cancer; in Salem, Ore...