Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremonies began with an uncommonly festive air. In the spacious Hall of the Frescoes in Rome's Palazzo Chigi, Giulio Andreotti, newly installed as Premier of his fourth government, was swearing in 46 new Cabinet Under Secretaries. After that, he would go to the adjoining Chamber of Deputies to present his new government and initiate the vote of confidence that for the first time in three decades would bring Italy's Communist Party into the parliamentary majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news...
Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...
Finkelstein started his campaign in Macy's basement, one of the first bargain basements in U.S. retailing. He abolished it and created the Cellar, actually a tiled "street" lined with spacious shops for gourmet food, cutlery, stationery and kitchenware and an art gallery. At one end is a reasonably accurate replica of P.J. Clarke's, the Irish pub in midtown Manhattan that stands just as it was built in the 1890s. Demonstrations run continually: a potter handcrafts vases in the pottery shop. On upper floors came other changes: a massive children's store on six, divided into...
...spacious and well-lit basketball suite of the IAB, coach Frank McLaughlin will take his men's basketball team out to play Boston College. McLaughlin puts a lot of emphasis on student support, so I want to see all of you in the IAB to catch this game. This is a required event. And if you haven't had enough basketball after that, you can stay around and watch the freshmen play B.C.'s J.V. This will give you your first chance to see the stars of tomorrow...
...salary as editor, but he will lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life: a big, sunny home with leaded, stained-glass windows, spacious rooms with smoothly rubbed, yellow wood Cape Dutch antiques, a swimming pool, two cars...