Word: preciousness
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...personally favor building a golden stadium in Minneapolis encrusted with precious gems, but only for our own amusement, not to make us major league, which we're not and don't want to be. We've seen major league places, and that's one reason we live here instead...
From those visions and their successors in Christianity's first millennium, a colorful, sometimes contradictory mystical vocabulary of heaven emerged. It was a garden, a city, a kingdom, a temple or, less often, a nut, a womb, a navel. It featured buildings and streets of precious metals and jewels, doves, palm trees (first discerned by the church father Lactantius), singing stones (a late borrowing from Celtic myth), white clothing, milk, honey, wine, olive oil, harps, fountains and ladders. It also developed a set of intractable controversies...
Yale University has nearly finished its $45 million renovation plan of its main library, Sterling. The plan was instituted in November 1995 after a burst pipe destroyed many of Sterling's precious books. The Library of Congress and the New York Public Library both have climate control systems. We believe that Harvard should catch up with the times and give its books the proper care they deserve...
...safety rules during routine refueling operations at Millstone 1--moving all of the radioactive fuel rods into the plant's spent-fuel storage pool even though the pool, crowded with thousands of old fuel rods, was licensed to handle the full core only on an emergency basis. To save precious off-line minutes, Northeast would start moving the fuel so quickly after shutdown that the heat melted a worker's protective boots...
...research to the 17th Century persecution of Galileo for his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, Harkin said it was wrong of President Clinton to ban all such research, and wrong of Senator Chris Bond to propose legislation making the ban permanent. Freedom of inquiry is too precious to quash out of simple fear of the profound uncertainties inherent in duplicating human beings, Harkin riposted: "Human cloning will take place, and it will take place in my lifetime. I don't fear it at all. I welcome...