Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles, life in the fast lane involves so much getting into and out of cars that motorists often have trouble remembering exactly where their vehicles are parked. Now customers who pull into the nine-level parking complex at the Century City North office tower have a new memory device to steer them to their cars: show tunes from famous motion pictures. Different parking levels have their own movie posters and such piped-in music as We're Off to See the Wizard and the theme from Star Wars...
What went wrong under clear skies at Minneapolis last March 31? Two air- traffic controllers, sitting side by side in the terminal tower, each failed to realize what the other had done. One had cleared the taxiing plane to cross the runway. The other had told the second plane to roll toward takeoff...
Several reports have said that those being considered for the job include U.N. Ambassador Vernon Walters and former senators John Tower and Howard Baker...
MOST COMPLICATED RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTION If you think you have trouble moving, consider this dilemma: dismantling the old restaurant in Paris' Eiffel Tower (a replacement was installed), numbering the 11,000 pieces, recording them on videotape, then packing and shipping them to New Orleans, there to be reassembled. Price tag for the transplanted Le Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, which opened Dec. 12 on St. Charles Avenue: $3.3 million. Then consider what all that can do to the price of a lamb chop...
...faith so powerful that it vindicated itself and changed a country's history. She brought not only a new face into politics, but also a new way of thinking about politics and the virtues it demands. The victory of "People Power" made no dents in the larger issues that tower like Stonehenge sentinels over the planet. It has not shifted the superpower equation nor reduced the threat of nuclear war. But it has, perhaps, affected the people who affect the issues...