Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill actually will lose money for the Treasury, enlarging the federal deficit, and creating more problems for the economy and the average taxpayer in the future. This view is contested by Louisiana's Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the bill's architect. He argued last week that the bill would raise $2 billion for the Treasury during the next fiscal year and $3.3 billion five years hence, helped in part by provisions that would make it slightly more difficult for wealthy individuals to avoid paying taxes altogether...
Little Brain. Korean technical know-how is in demand too; Seoul Architect S.G. Kim, for example, is designing a 4,200-unit apartment house in Tehran for a fee of $1 million. But Americans and Europeans are better at providing technical services, admits Seoul Businessman Chongwhan Choi, and on the whole, he says, he and his compatriots are content "doing jobs that require a lot of muscle power but little brain." To meet the construction deadline for the Jubail harbor, for example, Hyundai Co. is flying in 300 workers a week for an eventual total of 3,300, and Korean...
...dome, a 530-sq.-ft. tentlike house of plastic-coated paper he built for himself seven years ago on an island off Maine; there are now about 450 fiber-glass versions across the country. "People aren't quite sure what to call me," says Moss tentatively. "Architect? Engineer? No, I'm an artist. A tent to me is a piece of sculpture that you get into...
...wrote the Declaration of Independence, made the Louisiana Purchase and dispatched the Lewis and Clark Expedition was also a multifarious taster of art, a dilettante. Lacking a theory, Thomas Jefferson was blessed with an eclectic curiosity about aesthetic experience. As architect, he drew up some of the most refined structures in all Georgian building-Monticello, the Richmond Capitol and an "Academical village," the university of his native Virginia. He also had a devouring and insistent eye for detail; designs for stair rails, coffee urns, goblets and garden gates flowed from his hand. He systematically assembled a library, "not merely amassing...
...waterfront. The five-story structures, which for 150 years housed fruit, vegetable and meat markets, attracted two groups of people. Preservationists wanted to turn them into a museum. Some developers wanted to raze them and put the valuable downtown land to a more profitable use. But Cambridge Architect Ben Thompson had another idea. Why not modernize the buildings' interiors, recondition the exteriors and keep them as markets? The buildings could then turn a profit (and pay taxes) while enhancing historic Boston...