Word: preservationist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Preserve the Union," shouted Michael Adams, a professional preservationist from New York City who had chained himself to the gate of the Union in protest...
...backed candidates are promoting their own pet projects, as well. Duehay said he will fight to maintain the city-wide Cambridge Hospital network, to create a preservationist Harvard Square Historic Business District and to monitor cleanup of a chemical pollution site threatening the Cambridge water supply...
...fund's legal losses mount, it is becoming clear that Gifford's preservationist vision does not square with economic reality. The area is, in some sense, a victim of its historic success. With merchants clamoring for space here, rents are now among the highest in the state--so high that small, owner-operated stores can no longer afford them...
...group would be hard-pressed to hold back the crush of tourism. During the peak summer months, 7,000 visitors a day transform Yosemite Valley into an urbanized village of noisy bumper-to-bumper traffic and bicycle jams. To many nature lovers, the land that pioneering preservationist John Muir extolled for its "spiritual glow" and "sublime mountain beauty" has already been irreversibly damaged...
Pitts' professional fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...