Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehicles had left Sidon (pop. 200,000), the largest city in southern Lebanon, there was a brief invasion of another kind. Into Sidon, by bus from Beirut, came a ragtag army of Shi'ite Muslim militants, swearing vengeance against Israel and Lebanon's Christian leadership and vowing to rebuild the country in the image of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Iran...
When one victim, John, 30, arrived from Uganda in poor physical condition, weighing less than 80 lbs., the Toronto center arranged medical and psychiatric help. A nutritionist taught him and his family how to adapt to new foods. To rebuild his strength, one volunteer taught him to swim and got him access to a private pool. Cowgill, who urged John to call any time he needed to talk, got him a job as a telephone installer, the trade he practiced back home. "A job is so central to these survivors," she says, "because it gives meaning to their lives...
...Quad, the University is making lurching progress. Three years from now, after all the dust has settled. Cabot House residents will enjoy much bigger and prettier rooms. Once a donor is found to rebuild North House, it may be brought up to parity with its River counterparts. Those are great first steps. Still, the less concrete issues of how the preferential lottery works against Harvard's diversity, and how undergraduates feel about House life today, have yet to be addressed...
...result was a corporation that in 1979 had 370,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Among its multitude of ventures, ITT is currently manufacturing radar in Los Angeles, television sets in West Germany, shock absorbers in The Netherlands and radios in Zimbabwe, and is helping Egypt to rebuild Cairo's water-treatment system. ITT last year dropped its original name, International Telephone & Telegraph, because it gives no hint of the company's scope...
...Science Center Fountain finally took form. But with money enough to rebuild the quad dorms. Mike Blumenfeld gets a trip to Times Square, To handle some real renovations down there. And in Harvard Square, the gift has been given--Walkers can walk, cars can be driven. The subway construction they say is all done, But that's what they said back in Seventy-one. And closest to home, we wish Mr. Sandman, For Partrick Sorrento and Brain, our pressman. While upstairs amid all the business details. Tidy books for Liz, for Curtis fewer night mails...