Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dober based his study on the premise that the first part of 1-2-3 would place tenants in a position similar to that of tenants who lived in rent-controlled apartments before the city's Removal Permit Ordinance...
This day it is hard not to look at his hands. They are large, very large, as if they could palm a basketball. One knuckle is bleeding, the practice had been rough. You can imagine the hands as a nice resting place for a lofted football. Saturday, when he plays tight end, they are just that. Quarterback Tim Perry connects with Collins in the end zone for the Crimson's only touchdown...
...headquarters, De Niro chose an 83-year-old red brick building situated in TriBeCa, a trendy downtown neighborhood where he lives. De Niro, who will have 50% ownership in the building, is supervising a renovation that will leave in place industrial details like the giant coffee scales in his office. But the building's advanced features will include a 70-seat screening room designed by director George Lucas' production company...
...Felix Bloch it was "just another day," but a meal with him last week at Washington's posh Jockey Club took place under the watchful gaze of FBI agents two tables away, while a posse of reporters and TV cameramen waited outside. Two months have passed since the State Department accused Bloch of contacts with a Soviet agent, setting off a circus of public surveillance but no formal charges. Yet as Bloch sipped a vodka tonic and spoke angrily of the "F Bureau of Incompetents," he seemed little changed from the career foreign-service officer I have known for more...
...know, of course, how this great story finally ended. That is told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...