Word: rethought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings is a feeling for hangar-like lightness, strength and frugality of consumption that came out brilliantly in such projects as his 1981 design for the airport at Stansted in England. Earlier airports had massive concentrations of ductwork above their ceilings for air conditioning, lighting and electrical services; Foster rethought this completely and realized huge savings in structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that could open to natural daylight. This changed architects' thinking about airport design worldwide, and every major airport built since--Hamburg, Stuttgart, Kuala Lumpur...
...French are going to have a lot of trouble making the grade." Sancton notes that the recent difficulties other EU member nations have had in meeting the standards may allow for a looser interpretation of the rules, which could give France wiggle room. "The rules for inclusion are being rethought by everybody right now, because they are all realizing that the effort is too great to meet these criteria. Even the Germans have realized they can't make it, and they've been the most hard-line in sticking to them. So what all the partners have to consider...
...hands of some charismatic, self-appointed guru and end up gassing Tokyo's subway, forcing suicides on hundreds in Guyana or trying to escape in a UFO. If organized religion does not serve the purpose for which it was established, isn't it time that it was renewed and rethought? MIGUEL A. SALABARRIA Salamanca, Spain...
Petrocelli & Co. has, for instance, rethought the time line. Prosecutors Clark and Christopher Darden built their case on the theory that the murders were committed between 10:15 and 10:20 p.m. on June 12, bringing on Nicole's neighbor Pablo Fenjves to testify that he heard the "plaintive wail" of Kato the Akita at around that time. The prosecutors felt that gave Simpson plenty of time to commit the murders, then return to his Rockingham estate by about 10:45 or 10:50, which is when limousine driver Allan Park says he saw a dark figure entering the house...
...There have been] predictions about retirements which haven't happened as quickly as thought," Berg says. "More importantly, when people retire, the slots are being rethought...