Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said her plans for the Houses would include "inserting and changing stairs to make site arrangement...
...last week was to lobby, along with dozens of others, for landmark-protection status for places of worship. Onassis, 54, has a particular interest in seeing that St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan does not permit construction of a 59-story office building on part of its landmark site. In Albany, Onassis met with legislators and Governor Mario Cuomo, 51. The high point of the trip was the plea that she made before a jam-packed legislature. "The future of New York City is bleak if the landmarks that mean so much to us and our children are stripped...
...ironic, it leaves readers with hardly any place to stand. Events in A House in the Country are not only bizarre but vertiginous, a maelstrom around negation. Suppose, the novel demands, that one summer the elder Venturas decide to spend a day away from their estate at a picnic site that may or may not exist. They take all their servants and weapons with them (cannibals are said to maraud in the wilds, although no living family member can testify to having seen one), leaving their 33 pampered children alone and unprotected in the huge house...
...Sizer says, is "largely wasted" unless there is an immediate use for that language. He would also eliminate vocational education on the principle that "the best vocational education will be one in general education in the use of one's mind," followed by specific training at the work site...
AFTER THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last fall rated a toxic waste dump in Woburn, Mass. the fourth worst such site in the country, everyone knew the problem was bad. But no one knew just how bad until a team of researchers from the School of Public Health last week released the results of a study showing a positive correlation between the chemical contamination and the unusually high rate of childhood leukemia in the town. And that link will likely make all the difference for the town's residents who seek clean-up of the site and reparations...