Word: teared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument down. No way. I am keeping the faith. Eventually, Zhao will be vindicated. There's no turning back over the long run. The emperors in Beijing won't change the label. They'll still call China Communist. They'll have to do that to keep themselves in power...
...University decided to tear down the white neo-Georgian filling station that had occupied the site for nearly 50 years last winter. At that time Harvard officials were trying to avoid the legal hassles that could ensue if the building were allowed to reach the half-century mark...
...University decided to tear down the white neo-Georgian filling station that had occupied the site for nearly 50 years last winter. At that time Harvard officials were trying to avoid the legal hassles that could ensue if the building were allowed to reach the half-century mark...
...University decided to tear down the white neo-Georgian filling station that had occupied the site for nearly 50 years last winter. At that time Harvard officials were trying to avoid the legal hassles that could ensue if the building were allowed to reach the half-century mark...
City officials, who have been managing to tear down only about 250 derelict structures a month, initially cast a blind eye on the copycat barn razings that followed. Events took on the atmosphere of a block party in some neighborhoods. But then a scuffle broke out on Chatham Street, after house busters blocked the road with debris from the makeshift crack house and brothel they tore down. The Motor City demolition derby has now resulted in five arrests for wrecking without a permit -- and a healthy increase in the number of houses the city is clearing away...