Word: permanente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexico City has another natural peculiarity that makes it unable to support its millions. At 7,350 ft., it is one of the highest cities in the world, and yet it lies in a 50-mile-wide basin surrounded by mountains rising 3,000 ft. higher, notably the snow-covered...
It had been conceived, by the government at least, as an occasion for President Ferdinand Marcos to show his dedication to the democratic process. After nine years of martial law came to an end in 1981, a permanent national assembly was set up to replace the rubber-stamp legislature that...
The highly complex plan announced last week calls for the FDIC to hold 80% of Continental's stock. The agency hopes to create a more solid bank by shrinking the institution to less than three-fourths its former size. The bank will sell the FDIC $4.5 billion worth of...
Instead of monumental stone and steel, the design features banners, bunting and balloons fluttering in the wind, lightweight fantasy structures jutting into the sky, odd-shaped cardboard-and-fabric tents sheltering the crowds. What first strikes the eye is the color scheme created by Deborah Sussman, the graphic designer in...
With the number of participating nations increasing from 13 at the first modern Games in 1896 at Athens to 140 now at Los Angeles, even without the Soviet bloc, no host city will be able to afford permanent new architecture to accommodate the growing crowds for just two weeks.