Word: preservationist
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Riverbend Park is jointly run by the MDC and a local preservationist group called the People for River bend Park Trust...
...Harvard is proposing something contrary to what their own Design School set as factual parameters," said Harvard Square preservationist Gladys Gifford, Gifford recalled a 1984 Graduate School of Design study--whose purpose was to suggest strategies for limiting development in Harvard Square--which targeted the south side of Mt. Auburn St. as dangerously susceptible to development...
...dozen hardy restorationists, fighting the Old Tooth's extraction, caught the attention of the late Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A shrewd politician and dedicated preservationist, she charmed the General Services Administration, which is the federal landlord, and enlisted help on the Hill, including the support of Senators Daniel P. Moynihan and Mike Gravel. Hanks, for whom the new center is named, once told a committee, "Old buildings are like friends. They reassure in times of change...
...RHODES, 59, who succeeded Ford as House minority leader, will be chairman of the Kansas City convention. A Goldwater conservative from Arizona, Rhodes is popular with many moderates as well. His opposition to environmental issues has landed him on a list of a "Dirty Dozen" marked for defeat by preservationist groups. His House background (a member since 1953, minority leader since 1973) is too similar to Ford's to do anything to blunt Jimmy Carter's non-Washington appeal...