Word: siting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schlesinger contended that the U.S. should never have permitted the Soviets to cast concrete parts for the American building away from the site -- a procedure that allowed the Soviets to implant the electronic listening devices. He suggested that future construction be done by American workers using materials prefabricated in the U.S. He blamed the State Department and other Government agencies for recognizing the problem so late. Schlesinger admitted that U.S. experts still did not fully understand how the eavesdropping system worked, but he credited unnamed U.S. technicians with inventing a new detection device that enabled them to assess the damage...
Currently, Aquino holds complete executive and legislative power, including the power to draft and implement the proposed Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The proposal calls for the Philippine government to purchase land in installments from landowners and sell it back to tenants. But when Congress site on July 27, the power of legislation will be transferred. The matter will be out of Aquino's hands...
...Jefferson was not, of course, the only architect to act on such beliefs. In 1795 work began on Charles Bulfinch's new Massachusetts state house on Beacon Hill. The Old State House, built in 1712-13, had been the symbol of British power over Boston's economic life. Its site was tainted by the Boston Massacre. Its balcony signified rule by proclamation from on high...
...some $3 billion on preparations for the Games. Moreover, it finished the work well ahead of schedule, whereas at Montreal in 1976 the readiness of the facilities was in doubt right down to the wire. The graceful, 100,000-seat Olympic Stadium on the bank of the Han River, site of opening and closing ceremonies as well as track-and-field events, was finished in 1984. Eight miles south of the city center, the 135-acre Seoul Sports Complex (completed in 1986) includes a boxing arena, swimming hall and 50,000-seat baseball stadium. Some two miles away...
Turning to internal business, the assembly voted to move the church's headquarters from New York City and Atlanta to Louisville. The head of a site % committee, which had selected Kansas City, glumly eyed the Louisville lobbyists' brochures and gift baseball bats and grumbled, "Glitz and hype carried the day." Not exactly. To gain 900 Presbyterian jobs and a $32 million payroll, the Kentuckians will give the church a downtown building virtually free...