Word: sq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted today," said William Meyer, the confident, youthful president of Servico. He went on to describe the changes planned for the next year: the gourmet dining room, the spa, the whirlpool, the thermal wrap, the two-bedroom condos that would go for $125,000 each, the 8,000-sq.-ft. "action lounge" targeted to young people...
...lush arboreal growth may include more than 100 species of tree, each with its own interdependent colonies of plants and animals. But in the past several hundred years, the area of the globe covered by rain forest has decreased by some 44%. According to one U.N. study, 23,000 sq. mi. of rain forests are cut down every year -- an area about the size of West Virginia. One World Resources Institute staffer calculated that developers leveled 350 sq. mi. of rain forest while the biodiversity conference...
...eighth repository of presidential papers. Much of Carter's energy since he left the White House has gone into planning the center, raising money to fund it ("humiliating," he complained) and donning a hard hat to oversee the construction with his characteristic attention to detail. The 130,000-sq.- ft. interior houses a library of some 27 million presidential documents, a museum whose exhibits include electronic quizzes that let visitors play at making policy, and quarters for a think tank that, under the aegis of Emory University, will study and try to help resolve international disputes...
...Georgia's exclusive Sea Island, expensive homes with white columns or wrought-iron grillwork face the Atlantic, reflecting understated elegance. But now they are being joined by an intrusive newcomer, a sprawling collage of concrete and glass. The 12,500-sq.-ft. extravagance is the creation of Atlanta Architect John Portman, whose atriums and glass elevators have entranced visitors in hotels from Los Angeles to Manhattan...
...thorough was the restoration that 7,000 sq. ft. of marble floor tiles were lifted, cleaned and replaced with pieces from the same quarry in Italy that had produced the originals. Workmen spent a year on their knees reconstructing the mosaic. When the hotel reopened, however, the tiles were largely covered by carpet. "It broke our hearts to see the rugs go down," admitted Project Manager Michael Darby. "But marble floors are hard on the feet and very noisy...