Word: rebuild
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...20th century has been crueler to Berlin than to most any other major city in the world. In architecture as in politics, Berlin is a birthplace of modernism -- the kind of avenging romantic modernism that was determined to demolish the past and rebuild the future from scratch. And so again and again for a half-century after World War I, the city was razed wholesale for the sake of ferocious social ideas: first, the Utopian housing tracts of the 1920s; then the Nazis' megalomaniacal neoclassicism in the '30s; the devastating Allied bombing raids in the '40s; the redoubled, misguided urban...
EXPECTED USE: Harvard will build 25 new townhouses to be sold on an experimental basis to faculty members at prices approaching $350,000 a piece. The University also plans to help rebuild the public library...
...simply an altruistic gesture to help Europe rebuild. Scholars say the plan was a farsighted strategy for building up an American-led European alliance which would be immune to the threat of communist influence...
...must fight, let's fight at the site of farm foreclosures and save farms and save ranches and give farmers a chance to rebuild their lives," he said. "If we must fight, find the site of some trade drop from South Africa...
...Wednesday the three-term former Senator from Tennessee visited Capitol Hill to "get my passport restamped," as he put it, but actually to dramatize the Administration's desire to rebuild its relations with Congress. Republican Leader Bob Dole welcomed Baker to his office, which had been named "The Howard H. Baker Jr. Rooms" after he left the chamber in 1984. Dole had Baker's portrait placed where cameras could catch it and jokingly beamed a baby spotlight at it. He also offered Baker a key to his old office. No thanks, joked the new chief of staff, "I kept...