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...there is very little chance that the major powers will engage in nuclear war in the near future. There is no conceivable advantage to be gained by any party in such a conflict. Instead, the first nuclear aggressor will in all likelihood be a relatively isolated country that is affluent enough to possess the bomb but perceives its survival to be endangered by some local dispute. More attention should be paid to controlling nuclear weapons in those areas of the world than between the superpowers...
...zeal. Occasionally, there is a pawky sense of humor at work: of Claridge's hotel in London, Fielding observes, "Finding space will be the problem, since it is inhabited by client legacies that go back to the time of the Picts." Designed for a vanishing clientele-the affluent, ignorant American-Fielding's could stand revision in tone, if not in substance, to remain competitive...
...proposed IDS acquisition would expand American Express's customer base and put it in direct competition with another new financial giant, Sears, Roebuck, for the middle-income market. IDS customers are mostly Midwesterners with incomes in the $30,000 to $65,000 range, slightly less affluent than the typical American Express client, who earns upwards...
...Square is indeed one of the most exhilirating cultural and commercial centers in the country. The University (at once sagely academic and youthful), the affluent neighborhood to the west down Brattle St. and the less affluent, heavily ethnic neighborhoods at the northern and eastern ends of Mass. Ave, all combine into a cultural potpourri. This hybrid probably boasts the nation's highest concentration and variety of both ice cream and bookstores (including the oldest foreign language bookstore in the United States.) Harvard Square, as much as Harvard itself, draws tourists, soul-searchers, and cosmopolitans to mid-Cambridge--or at least...
...shopping center is like a department store. First you plan where the merchandise is going to go, then you build architecture around it." That sort of attitude hardly seems suited to Sotheby's, where a cultivated image of exclusivity and taste is considered crucial for dealing with affluent art collectors...