Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peabody Terrace, the apartment complex occupied primarily by married students, may well be the most revolting building on the Charles. Designed in 1963, the building litters the riverbank with its 21-story towers and irregular terraces...
Britain's National Rivers Authority has been especially active. Its interest persuaded the electronics industry to come up with a briefcase-size monitor that can be used on a riverbank to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...
Snoozing at the mouth of a narrow valley, its air perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys...
...sound stages erected on either end of the stretch of riverbank, speakers and musicians entertained the on-lookers, some of whom reclined on the grass while others danced or strolled about...