Word: shaped
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...allocating $15 million to launch a counteroffensive. While the sum is minuscule for the task, the declaration signals a change in philosophy for the Administration, which had resisted calls for tighter banking regulations. Only hours after Bush unveiled his antidrug offensive last September, a federal task force began taking shape. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) hopes to zero in on money launderers with computer programs capable of spotting suspicious movements of electronic money...
...been somewhat of a dictator at BU," said State Sen. Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville). "His ultra-right wing, shape-up-or-ship-out philosophy may be one that he came up with after much thought, but it doesn't work in a political arena where there has to be more give and take...
Much of the attention to what critics call the "vernacular architecture" of the postwar era comes from baby boomers nostalgically intent on preserving the roadside attractions of their youth. Groups in six states are seriously studying some of the teepee-shape motels and iceberg-shape gas stations that still dot U.S. Route 66, once the main route from Chicago to Los Angeles. "These places are a part of our history," says Richard Gutman, author of American Diner. "They are being swept away at a pace that is astonishing...
Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
...succeeded Erich Honecker reveals to TIME that he told officials to disobey any order to shoot demonstrators in Leipzig. He invites "all political forces" to shape a consensus that will serve his country's majority. But he insists that present borders must be respected and takes a dim view of German reunification...