Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bullock's Northern California department store, San Mateo, Calif. L. Gene Zellmer Associates, architects; Geiger Berger Associates, P.C., structural engineers. A soaring, translucent tent structure provides shoppers with daylight and a festive atmosphere. San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., architects. A creative yet respectful transformation has turned the slightly loony old Lone Star Brewery into an imposing museum building...
...understand Gaddafi is to understand his heritage. Son of a nomadic livestock trader, he was born in a tent in the desert near the Libyan town of Sirte in 1942 Libya was then occupied by the forces of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, and its people were treated, at best, as fifth-class citizens. That bitter memory, as much as his tribal upbringing and education in Muslim schools, shaped Gaddafi...
...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
...Miamian whose throat has been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living in a tent pitched beneath a highway overpass...
America is now probably the most war-mongering nation on earth. Welcome into "the tent of history...