Word: overlaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director David Vickery said yesterday the proposed ordinance would be filed with the City Council next Monday, and would include "institutional overlay" district boundaries that have drawn criticism from the universities in recent weeks...
...hurrah as an opera singer. For more than a quarter of a century audiences have been captivated by her supple, crystalline soprano voice, the musicality of her every acting gesture and her warm, spontaneous personality, which soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills in life: a keenly intelligent, shrewd, ebullient woman (her nickname is Bubbles) who has taken a stable, no-nonsense approach to one of the century's major singing careers...
...Prophet Simon Kimbangu, more closely resemble orthodox Protestantism. The movement was founded in 1921. It prospered because the colonial Belgian government considered Kimbangu a troublemaker and martyred him by throwing him into prison, where he later died. Many of the independent churches are openly syncretistic, putting the merest Christian overlay upon witchcraft, sorcery and ancestor worship...
...their fight to have the project shrunk to the state level. All agree that Parcel 1B will be developed, but some residents say they've learned their lesson. A campaign to downzone Mass Ave between Harvard and Central Sques is under way, and the recently passed Harvard Square zoning overlay may, by limiting building heights, discourage large-scale facilities. "I don't think the chicness really appeals to the average person who lives in Cambridge, certainly not to the average Radcliffe or Harvard student," Duehay says. But it does appeal to area merchants, making it impossible to slow the spread...