Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archaeological dig in Winnepsaugusaukeeswampscott, Massachusetts, site of early Puritan settlements, historians have found fragments resembling banjos, harmonicas, large gold-plated belt buckles and, most amazingly, several pages of an early Hee-Haw script written on parchment. This startling evidence shows that the Puritans, sober settlers of Boston and founders of Harvard, may have had some contact with honky-tonk...
...Apple is, not coincidentally, the site of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1947. Where else could Branch Rickey have pulled off integrating the national pastime during the Jim Crow era--very liberal...
Perpetrator Eugene Kashpureff called it "a protest." For twenty-four hours on July 14, Internet users attempting to register a domain name (like "business.com" or "savethewhales.org") with Net registrar InterNIC found themselves not at "internic.net" but at "alternic.net," the site of Kashpureff's own company...
...Basque regional government in Bilbao really wanted the Guggenheim there; it backed Gehry's design to the hilt and poured money into the venture. It provided a free 249,000-sq.-ft. site on a bend in the Nervion, the river that passes through Bilbao; the basic construction cost of $100 million; $50 million more for new acquisitions; a $20 million advisory fee to the Guggenheim; and $12 million a year in operating costs. Hands up, anyone who can imagine an American city doing that entirely with public money...
...denies that the checks, written by friends and business allies, were intended to strengthen his hand in negotiations with HUD. Nor was that the purpose of a $50,000 donation to the Democratic Party in May 1996. Still, two months later HUD granted him tentative approval to buy the site on an installment plan. But when ANDREW CUOMO became HUD Secretary after the election, the deal was undone. Cuomo demanded payment in full. Disappointed but undaunted, Velez has renewed his bid, this time teamed with a new lobbyist, MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Democratic Party chief and Commerce Secretary...