Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facilities as to raise a question of whether they can be ready in time. Last week, while the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, received assurances from Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that the games would be held on schedule, construction workers in Quebec and at the Olympic construction site struck yet again, this time mainly to protest a blunt, 603-page report on corruption and crime in four Quebec Federation of Labor unions. The Quebec government had already voted to replace tainted leaders with government-appointed trustees...
Stephen Smith, president of the library corporation, examined the Allston-Brighton site, located on Harvard-owned land near the Business School, with Daly and others on Friday...
...library corporation announced May 15 that unless a site can be found within one month in an existing structure in Massachusetts, both the archives and the museum will be built at UMass-Amherset or Boston...
...victory all but official, the U.S. began accelerating the reduction of Americans in Laos. At the start of the week, about 850 U.S. officials and dependents and 150 businessmen, journalists, missionaries and other private citizens were based there. Some of them came under attack last week. In Luang Prabang, site of King Savang Vatthana's royal capital, leftist students stormed the compound of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Waving banners and banging drums, they smashed desks and tossed typewriters through windows. During a similar attack against USAID facilities at Savannakhet, a youthful mob looted food stocks and placed...
...building blocks for the colonies. Rich in aluminum, titanium, iron and other essential materials-including oxygen-lunar rocks could be fired off by a continuously catapulting device. Slowing as they climb out of the moon's gravity, these building blocks would eventually arrive at the construction site in free space. That would be much cheaper than carrying the materials from earth, where mineral-rich ores are already scarce and stronger gravity makes it necessary to use more powerful and costly rockets for launching...