Word: projects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gund's staff have said they are merely trying to construct a structure that will mix well architecturally with the neighborhood, residents have said the complex threatens the character of the neighborhood. And they have charged that the city's Planning Board has no jurisdiction over the the project, called Zero Arrow Street...
Residents have also said that Planning Board Chair Paul Dietrich has a conflict of interest in the case because his architectural firm owns property near the site. That property might increase in value were Gund's project to be built...
...planning board meeting last Tuesday discussed but did not settle the issue of whether the project can continue...
...career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation, the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities has found little resistance to its counselors, who regularly present slide shows and distribute pamphlets in local schools...
Sound farfetched? Perhaps. But normally unflappable Bostonians consider this apocalyptic vision a real possibility, and it has the city in an uproar. In two years construction is scheduled to begin on the $4.4 billion Central Artery project, the rebuilding of a highway that runs through the heart of downtown Boston. To relocate much of the highway underground, workers will have to excavate 13 million sq. yds. of earth, tearing up countless sewers and other subterranean tunnels. The problem: they are home to untold thousands of the city's rats, one of the largest such colonies in the country. Rudely evicted...