Its aim was explicitly modern: "Only original products that show a decisive tendency toward aesthetic renewal of form will be admitted.

"The ice has started moving; the icebreaker is on its way toward renewal," the Soviet leader told reporters later.

"The icebreaker is on its way toward renewal."

But, he said, he still believes the church can turn the corner toward renewal.

In late 1993, however, he argued that municipal spending would be better directed toward infrastructural renewal.

Much of his 70's work stems from a radical impulse toward destruction and renewal.

A three-story log "cabin" would also go a long way toward urban renewal.

Today it has become a stumbling laggard, mired in old-fashioned military rule while other parts of the continent move, however haltingly, toward democratic renewal.

It is an open question whether that influence has been circumscribed by Italy's striving toward political renewal.

And a million tons of debris have been removed as Lower Manhattan claws its way toward renewal.