Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five Government, corporate and nonprofit research organizations are located in the park's 5,400 acres of rolling, pine-covered hills. Over 60 buildings, some of them dramatic, futuristic structures like the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters, are widely separated in the woods-with plenty of room to stretch and sprawl. Now there are more Ph.D.s in relation to the population-3,000 engineers and scientists with doctorates-than in any other part of the nation. "This is a sparkplug center, firing the South's vision of itself," says John Tyler Caldwell, former chancellor of North Carolina State...
...there to hear the Crimson crowd erupt when Jackie Hughes and Horton scored shorthanded goals in the second period, when Jon Garrity notched the game-winner, when Petrovek frustrated more than one Terrier with a sprawl here and a lunge there and in so doing saved the tourney MVP award for himself. PETRO, PETRO, PETRO we yelled as the senior netminder accepted his due. You had to be there...
...Venice Biennale, which opened to the public last week. We know the pieties-that the avant-garde is embattled, that culture transcends politics, that abstract art speaks a language uncontaminated by ideology, that modernism somehow makes us free. Throughout the '50s and early '60s, the Biennale-that sprawl of art exhibitions devoted to the newest of the new, held every two years in a cluster of national pavilions beside the oily green waters of St. Mark's basin-was the symbol of that creed. In 1976 it is otherwise...
...relatively picturesque, somewhat historic, largely traffic-free, and not overly demanding route. Since crossing deserts is hazardous, the western end of the trail was kept wen to the north. The North Central plains tend toward macadam monotony, so the route drops south to skirt the Ozarks. To avoid urban sprawl, Bike-centennial is a Baedeker of back roads...
...Pete Schabarum announced that he would quit his post as a director of the Southern California Rapid Transit District in protest against the project. Says he: "I just don't believe that a fixed rail-transit system will work in Los Angeles. This is an area of urban sprawl, low density. with a great diversity of directions of trips." He also predicts that the cost will balloon to $13 billion. Fred Case, a member of the Los Angeles city planning commission, argues that area residents "are going to continue to use automobiles to get where they want...