Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Premier is respected and admired at home, especially among lowincome, less-educated groups of Middle Eastern origin, for his mystical devotion to Eretz Israel (the land of Israel, including the biblical provinces of Samaria and Judea, which is how Begin refers to the West Bank). At the same time, many Israelis doubt his capacity to lead his country to peace because they fear he is too rigid, too suspicious of the Arabs, whom he barely knows, and too traumatized by Jewish history. His harshest critics call him a Yehudi Galuti, a Diaspora Jew, and it is true that...
...Israel bring itself to surrender territory that could be used to launch a new war against it? Even so moderate and rational a man as Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, leader of the D.M.C. and Deputy Premier, says no. "When we come to an issue like the West Bank," he argues, "Israel's dilemma is whether to yield to U.S. pressure or jeopardize its very existence. When the country is faced with such a dilemma, Israel will not yield, come what may." Says David Glass of the National Religious Party: "You can't push Israel too hard. When we begin to feel...
...East Coast. With the price of new oil virtually deregulated, those finds have become all the more desirable. Though the Supreme Court decision set no precedent, the oilmen hope it may move other courts to rule in their favor in a case involving those lease tracts in the Georges Bank area, 100 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass., that are still blocked...
...Francisco boasts a lot of awesome architecture: the towering headquarters of Transamerica Corp., which looks like an elongated pyramid; the severe, deep-carnelian granite Bank of America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...
Pereira, who designed such pioneering structures as C.B.S. Television City in Los Angeles and the library at the University of California at San Diego, got the idea from a 24-story building owned by the Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. Although it was built in the 1920s, says Pereira, "it is always 100% occupied, and one of the principal reasons is that it has openable windows." He designed the Pacific Mutual building not only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that...