51. It also has wide, tree-lined boulevards, and massive gray apartment blocks. 52. It can fairly be considered a military target now, although it is surrounded by apartment blocks, offices and stores. 53. It smells like salt and fresh food and the breeze from a horizon more distant than these battered apartment blocks. 54. Its officers began to search people, pretty much at random and often with little cause, on the streets, in housing projects and in apartment blocks. 55. Like most of the former mill employees and their spouses, she lives in the increasingly decrepit company apartment blocks. 56. More than half the tenants of his apartment block are from Hong Kong. 57. Neon logos, brand-new mirrored commercial plazas and dozens of modern hotels relieve the previously monochromatic landscape of Stalinist-style apartment blocks and squat government buildings. 58. No one has been charged in the bombings, which destroyed a Russian barracks in Dagestan and vast apartment blocks in Moscow and the southwest Russian town of Volgodonsk. 59. One consequence has been increasing urban density, typified by a forest of steel-and-glass skyscraper apartment blocks along False Creek in central Vancouver. 60. On a recent week night, in an apartment block near the Interior Ministry building, a family of five surfed the channels and offered their preferences. |