Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every old building can be saved. Not every old building should be saved. Except for set pieces like fussy little Colonial Williamsburg or the elegant Upper East Side of Manhattan, cities should not remain stuck in time. As Charlestonians have learned, vitality depends on at least modest infusions of new building. Even preservationists, most of them, agree in principle. Says Gene Norman, chairman of New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission: "We are not trying to create a museum city...
...popularity of the old has taught some fine lessons and a few dubious habits. The Ralph Laurenized marketing of snobby antiquity is a side effect the country could probably do without. Postmodernism has become popular along with the antique buildings that inspired it, which was fine until every second shopping-center architect became a second-rate postmodernist. Now, with historicism broadly popular, modernist architectural style is on the verge of a comeback -- but a modernism that has learned from old buildings about small scale, simplicity of construction and the pleasure of materials...
...excuse to stop progress" and "as a method of stopping anybody from progressing a city." Trump's current idea of "progressing a city" is to put up a set of nine gigantic high-rise towers, among them the tallest building in the world, on Manhattan's old Upper West Side...
...caught up in harvesting empties for profit. Charities, civic clubs and groups like the Boy Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says he: "These people have built...
Moneymen around the world were yearning to look on the bright side, and it was high time. After weeks of gloom and stress since the Black Monday crash of Oct. 19, the financial markets needed only to see a few rays of hope to justify a rally. But everyone was looking for encouraging signals from the one place in particular, the U.S., that lately has been unable to deliver. . Investors and foreign leaders watched with increasing impatience last week as they waited for America to come across with some evidence of progress in solving its economic problems...