Word: restorationism
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Just as giving a 100-year-old lady a face lift is not an easy operation, the restoration of Memorial Hall is no simple renovation job.
The strike would have come at a crucial period in the University's restoration plans, because the carpenters are now putting up partitions in Cabot House. Had that construction stopped, electricians and plumbers could not have continued their work, said Roger Cayer, the Planning Department's project manager in charge...
"Three of us put up a total of 4,500 rubles ($6,750) of our own savings," says Fyodorov, a former hotel food-service director. "The state bank loaned us 50,000 rubles (($75,000)) interest-free to pay for renovating and furnishing this building. We have to pay that...
Next month, on Aug. 16 to be exact, Elvis Presley will have been dead for ten years, an anniversary that will be memorialized on a less moderate scale. This is the sort of occasion that is best honored simply, with fond memories and the playing of some choice sides. But...
These movements come from diametrically opposed philosophies which have become curiously intertwined during the Reagan era. The first is the conservative desire to restore the good old days when all citizens strictly obeyed the laws of the land and those of God (Which some still think are one and the...