Word: copley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard heavyweight crew team Saturday finished fifth in the final race of the San Diego Crew Classic. The University of California at Berkeley won the coveted Copley Cup with a final time of 5:59.4 in the 2000-meter race...
...schools competing for the Copley Cup were divided into two heats, and the top three finishers from each competition raced in an additional final round to determine the final rankings. Harvard finished second in the preliminary race, with a considerably better time...
...Copley --Copley Plaza Hotel...
...Boston has one of the nation's most stringent fire codes. Every building over 70 ft. tall, for instance, must have a sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
...citing examples of his own work, Cobb emphasizes his desire to make designs fit existing structural and social contexts. One of his designs, the John Hancock Insurance Company building, has been one of Boston's most controversial structures. Located in Copley Square, the Hancock tower in famous for the structural defect which resulted in huge planes of glass exploding off its facade exterior. Even before that catastrophe, citizens were outraged by the arrogance of a private corporation erecting a 60-story office building adjacent to the city's historic heart; the tower stands next to H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church...