Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good job with her rooming group, they still have some criticisms of the process. Freshmen suggested several alterations to the housing application, including the elimination of the neatness scale and the addition of space where incoming frosh could request certain physical characteristics for their rooms, such as fire-places or private baths...
...dual track" decision of 1979. The U.S. would offset the Soviet missiles by deploying a new generation of its own "Euromissiles" -- Tomahawk cruise missiles and Pershing II ballistic missiles -- while at the same time making a good-faith effort to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. a compromise that would scale back the missiles on both sides...
...Many times the faculty will respond to a plansetting a time scale of five years and by thattime new students will be here and the reformideas will be lost in committee," added Beroutsos...
...driven projects block out the sun, overload already groaning services and paralyze traffic. Celebrities like Jacqueline Onassis, Henry Kissinger and Paul Newman have joined hundreds of West Side residents in protests against skyscrapers proposed by Builders Donald Trump and Mortimer Zuckerman. Bowing to public pressure, Zuckerman has offered to scale down his 68-story tower, which would cast shadows across Central Park. NBC has backed away from Trump's proposed Television City, probably killing his dream for the world's tallest building: 150 stories that would throw morning gloom across the Hudson River into New Jersey...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning study of the exercise of urban power, decries Koch's lack of vision. "The physical transformation of a city changes it for generations, for centuries. I see a city being cemented into place against the sky -- a city of monstrous buildings, with a disregard for human scale, human values. Koch is building a big city, not a great one. The Koch administration, I fear, will go down in history surrounded by shadows, the shadow of corruption and the shadows cast by enormous buildings...