Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard officials also point out the connection between windows, room design, and energy waste. Open windows account for the highest loss of energy to the University, J. Lawrence Joyce, director of the Buildings and Grounds department, says. This leads to the overheated rooms that so many students complain about, Joyce adds...
...Cyprus crisis of 1974, a chain of coup, invasion, countercoup and embargo that left the southern flank of NATO in chaos and U.S. prestige in the Eastern Mediterranean at an ebb. Laurence Stern, a veteran reporter on national security for the Washington Post, has written a compact and compelling account of the affair. He traces U.S. policy from the Truman Doctrine of 1947 to Clark Clifford's inconclusive mediation mission earlier this year, but he concentrates on the American missteps in the summer and fall...
...account for all this added heft? Laments Statistician Sidney Abraham, the main author of the center's report: "Adults are obviously not getting appreciably taller, and they usually do not get more muscular. All we can say is that the weight increase we found is due to fat." One cause might be junk food and quick lunches, eaten hastily. Independent physicians who treat many overweight patients are inclined to put at least as much if not more blame on prolonged TV watching, especially for men who spend many weekend hours entranced by football, enhanced with a six-pack of beer...
...talk of the town in Manhattan's backstabbing, gossipy advertising business is the extraordinary success of Peter Rogers, 43, who has built a booming business grossing $10 million by breaking almost all the rules of the game. He has never solicited an account, yet the roster of clients he represents?including Bulgari, the famous jewelers, Danskin's nylon tights, and Fashion Designer Pauline Trigère?has grown from ten to 32 in the past two years...
Rogers specializes in memorable headlines. Word of mouth recently enticed Vidal Sassoon, Inc., the Los Angeles-based hairstyling and hair-care products business, to offer Rogers a $4 million account if he could come up with a snappy head. Rogers' creation: "If you don't look good, we don't look good." Some of Rogers' other sparkling one-liners include "It's got to be a Maximilian" for Maximilian furs; "When your own initials are enough" for Bottega Veneta, the leather goods company; "You never had it so good for so little" (Gloria Vanderbilt $26 blouses); "There's a little...