Word: teared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas and tear down walls in front of parks and playgrounds, because they all increase isolation from the city experience...
...that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...
...Tokyo, for example, would be hard-pressed to find any sizable patches of green in the neon-drenched, congested concrete megalopolis that sprawls around their tiny studios. All of the featured artists' works, in subject matter as well as execution, not only defy tradition but in some cases tear it to shreds...
...Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last week as he surveyed the turmoil rocking his vast country, "is fraught with dangerous political and economic consequences." The question for Gorbachev: Will the "revolution from below," which he has been urging on his laggard countrymen, help accelerate his ambitious plans for reform -- or tear the U.S.S.R. apart...
Will the "revolution from below" accelerate Gorbachev's ambitious plans for reform or tear the country apart? -- A breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet negotiations over the elimination of chemical weapons heralds progress on the thorny verification issue. -- Fighting at breathtaking altitudes, Indians and Pakistanis remain locked in an icy stalemate over a Himalayan boundary...