Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe administration staged a running battle with residents of Cambridge's Observatory Hill neighborhood, the proposed site of a new Radcliffe gymnasium. The residents lobbied the City Council to change the zoning regulations on the area, in an attempt to halt the planned expansion. Radcliffe, meanwhile, pushed for completion of the project, as the residents' delaying tactics pushed projected costs up through the gym roof...
...Maya rain god. The statue was to adorn the city hall grounds, but officials realized that it was too fragile for the extremes of Kansas weather and too tall to fit inside city hall. It now rests in the basement of city hall while authorities search for a new site...
...official opening, radicals cut air-traffic communications cables serving the airport, paralyzing air traffic all over the country for four hours. Some 500 protesters also tried to crash through one of the airport gates with fire bombs. Other groups attacked a radar station and a tactical air navigation site, leaving 24 policemen injured...
...cause for suspicion; yet, one cannot tour the East Building without sensing that the volume of praise is justified. I.M. Pei has produced, in the fullest sense of that hackneyed but unavoidable word, a masterpiece?a structure born of sustained and highly analytical thought, exquisitely attuned to its site and architectural surroundings, conveying a sense of grand occasion without the slightest trace of pomposity. It restores the sense of craftsmanship, as distinct from routine fabrication, without which major architecture cannot exist...
Outside the mines the Shaba economy is stagnant. The only development in the area is the investment by OTRAG, a huge West German company, in a rocket-testing site near Lubumbashi. Mobutu gave the site, covering hundreds of kilometers, to OTRAG in much the same way colonies were assigned to European monopolies in the 19th century. OTRAG may remove the inhabitants and establish its own laws; its personnel are not subject to Zaire laws. The site borders on Zambia and Tanzania, and is only a few hundred kilometers from Angola--a fact that has made these independent countries understandably nervous...