Word: rebuild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American expert in earthquake reconstruction has worked out an agreement to rebuild Leninakan, one of the Soviet Armenian cities leveled by a quake last December...
Eduardo Lozano, a former professor of urban planning at Harvard University who has helped rebuild devastated cities in Peru and Nicaragua, said Sunday he will draft a master plan for the city. Lozano and officials in Moscow and Armenia, a Soviet republic, agreed on the plan last week...
...Gorbachev's approach is probably the only way to rebuild a system so deeply corroded. The failed reforms of 1965, which attempted to introduce price and profit incentives, showed that tinkering with parts of the economy without a comprehensive overhaul of attitudes was doomed. Linkage is necessary because the economic and social problems all stem from the same root: too much centralization. A system based on bureaucratic commands has failed. Decentralization is necessary. But this cannot occur unless people are allowed the freedom to think for themselves...
...weapon in the country's struggle against alcoholism, encouraging people to rebuild themselves -- a sort of perestroika of the personality, one day at a time. More poignantly, it is an exercise in self- expression that is the essence of glasnost, an act of standing up and discussing a shortcoming that the state once preferred to keep quiet...
...must ask, Can you rebuild a pyramid into the Parthenon? The ancient Egyptian pyramids are rightly considered the most enduring of architectural forms -- much more durable and solid than the Parthenon. And the legitimate question arises: Do pyramids lend themselves to perestroika? It would be possible, of course, to adorn them with decorative colonnades, to cover them with molding, to suspend Greek porticoes on them. But would these changes enhance them? Wouldn't they spoil the fundamental style and profile...