Leopold Road in south London became a conservation area because of "the cohesiveness of the height of the buildings" but that is threatened by "loss of historic features, inappropriate shop fronts and the dominating presence of traffic".
The U.S. repealed Prohibition of alcohol at the height of the Great Depression, in part because of increasing violence and in part because of diminishing tax revenues.
The council then withdrew the application because the Greater London Authority had concerns over the proposed height of two of the residential blocks.
The society ran out of cash when investors withdrew money because the PMS was not covered by a government savings guarantee, introduced at the height of the financial crisis.
The cold weather "couldn't have come at a worse time" because it coincided with the height of the lambing season, said NFU spokesman Mike Thomas.
So given the encouraging news we received today on jobs, it would be the height of irresponsibility to halt our economic momentum because of the same old Washington politics.
Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.
Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.
Roughly 300 stores closed at the height of the storm because of power outages or government evacuation orders, and about 80 remained shut as of Tuesday afternoon.
And, perhaps most importantly, if you went for a traditional low-riding supercar--such as the Aston Martin Vanquish--instead of the Arnage T, you couldn't put a six-foot-two-inch driver up front and another passenger of equal height in the backseat, because there wouldn't even be a backseat, let alone a huge trunk.
Air Wales had hit the headlines last year by appealing for cabin crew under 5ft 3 inches - a height restriction it insists on because of tight space on the aircraft.
They measured Thack Moor because the height according to OS maps was 609m - just short of the magic mountain mark.
BBC: Ordnance Survey confirms mountain status for Thack Moor
Mack had been lying second behind his compatriot Toby Stevenson, because of a failure earlier in the competition, until he lifted himself over the winning height at his third attempt.
And he saw an opportunity to take his vision and, really, encode it in this city that was able to represent all of our postwar fantasies and aspirations and hopes and, also, gave us a way to somehow ground our fears because we can't forget that Disneyland was built right smack in the middle of the height of the Cold War.
And I tell that story partly because it brings a smile to my face, but also because it captures the quiet, dogged, dignified persistence that all of us who loved Dr. Height came to know so well -- an attribute that we understand she learned early on.
But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.
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