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According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. Last month, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant...
Bowyer said that the cost of the second-stage project might be lowered by combining an underground garage with the related structure complex, thereby eliminating the need for piles altogether. Such a complex would "float" in the marshy subsoil, but would be limited in height to six or eight stories...
The committee now has a team of lawyers investigating old people's homes and lobbying in Congress for better legislation to protect the aged. Says Miss Kuhn: "Much of senility is not irreversible; it is induced by despair and frustration. Fixed retirement is dehumanizing. It shows how stupid our...
For all that, many investigative reporters, particularly those on newspapers, do not exactly feel that they are riding the wave of the future. Their work takes weeks and sometimes months of interviewing and perusal of piles of documents, all too often with no results. Many false trails must be explored...
No amount of rescue work, however, could still the acrimonious debate that erupted over who was responsible for the disaster. Slag dams -or gob piles, as they are often called in the region-are an ugly but common sight in West Virginia. Like the one at Buffalo Creek, which was...