Word: restorationism
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The five-year restoration has been difficult. Agendas and aesthetics clashed. The islands are U.S. property, administered by the National Park Service, but the restoration money was doled out by Iacocca's foundation. The islands also have, in this secular republic, almost religious status. Even if there had been a...
Of the thousands of ceiling tiles in the main building's vaulted, 58-ft.- high registry hall, only a few dozen needed replacing. In addition to restoring the 20-ft. by 20-ft. dormitory spaces (three families to a room), one wing of the main building will include new exhibition...
Every hundred years, some wag remarked as the Statue of Liberty was undergoing its two-year, $66.3 million restoration, a lady needs a face-lifting. Well, maybe it was too much to expect the refurbished copper statue to shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4...
Green netting and scaffolding used in a restoration project at St. Peter's covered about half of the front of the massive church.
Reagan has tried to stop the passage of the 1986 Civil Rights Restoration Act by attaching an anti-abortion amendment. This act would prohibit the federal funding of institutions that discriminate on the basis of race, sex or disability. The Reagan amendment would replace these broken chains with new ones...