Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same scene was played out at barracks across the country, and, with few exceptions, Guatemala's junior officer corps closed ranks behind the insurgents. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and 105-mm howitzers appeared in the plaza before the ornate, colonnaded National Palace. As some 500 infantry troops encircled the area, the coup's chief planner, a boyish, clean-shaven captain named Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, set up his field headquarters in an arcade of shops on the far side of the square...
...cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior of its antebellum capitol in Montgomery in 1981 for roughly $3 million, and intends to begin work on the interior next year. The exterior of Pennsylvania's legislative building is in fine shape, but a one-story plaza will be added to conform to the original building design...
...Harvard Campaign hits the $350 million mark, thanks to a $100 million contribution from an anonymous donor in Queens. "Actually, it's only a postcard with a pledge on it, but we're confident enough that we've renamed Holyoke Center 'John Doe Plaza,'" campaign officials say happily...
...kind of enthused," said the vacationing President, while signing 35 bills at the Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Among them were two that formalized notable White House victories over Congress: a $200 billion defense spending bill and an $11.6 billion foreign aid appropriation, which will give the Executive Branch new flexibility to direct both military and development assistance. But that did not quite end the battle over expenditures for fiscal 1982, which began Oct. 1; large portions of the Federal Government are still being financed under a "continuing resolution" that expires March...
...United Nations headquarters, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center; in New York City. Harrison was celebrated for his skills at organizing disparate groups of architects to work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident mood of the 1939 World's Fair...