Word: height
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women, junior Megan Young set a personal best height when she cleared 5-ft., 6 1/2-in. in the high jump, topping her previous best by nearly four inches. In addition to Young's exploits, junior Meredith Rainey posted two first-place finishes to score 10 points for the Crimson, as she ran a 25.14 in the 200-meter and a 56.55 in the 400-meter...
...Crimson flew out to Lincoln Wednesday, thus allowing ample time to adjust to the one-hour time difference. Harvard may have more trouble adjusting to the height difference--the Cornhuskers possess two seven-footers and seven others taller than...
...favor of just-so classicism, it is Eisenman who is left to build in the architectural jokes: the disintegrating ersatz archway and cartoony castellated brick towers around the perimeter of Wexner (alluding to an old armory on the site that was razed in 1958); the curious floor-to-chest-height windows in the top-floor offices; the short, folly stairway that goes nowhere; or the boatlike carbuncle on top of the building with no practical function whatsoever...
Antigrowth instincts have stiffened, especially around Seattle, where the citizenry has been increasingly inclined to put environmental conservatism first. Last May, for example, voters overwhelmingly approved new restrictions limiting the height of future downtown skyscrapers to 450 ft. "The California rush is actually useful in crystallizing the debate over our future," says Lois Schwennesen, King County's planning and development manager. "It's helping us face some hard choices, about sewage, transit, road construction and the rest, and it's helping us understand that you can't have...
...When Motorola developed Micro TAC, the first pocket-size cellular phone, engineers made the device sturdy enough to be dropped from a height of 4 ft. onto a concrete surface without breaking...