Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's demands on Israel, in exchange for peace, were tough and familiar: the return to Arab sovereignty of all territory (including East Jerusalem) conquered during the 1967 Six-Day War; a homeland for Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza. Yet far more important were the generous words of acceptance that few Israelis ever expected to hear from an Arab head of state, least of all in their own parliament...
With its splendid hoard of half a million words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the central bank of the language -a trove of Latinate abstractions. Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations to show the historical progress of language, the way its vocabularies have stirred, matured in meaning and eventually decayed. But the logomaniac's great joy in the O.E.D. is to wander through it looking for the glint of old coins: sippet, maumetry, floscule, gimmer, the wonderfully dark deathbird...
...harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot. Originally he had proposed to devote a mere ten years...
Besides the skyscraper's towering stilts and bright aluminum sheathing, its most unusual feature is the angled wedge on top. It was originally designed to house luxury apartments-a plan that was dropped because the zoning laws were not advantageous. Then the bank hoped to use its southern-faced panels as a solar energy generator; it even got a $185,000 federal grant to study its feasibility. Given the state of the art, solar energy proved an impractical undertaking for the moment-though there is a possibility that in two years or so the cheeky wedge will be producing...
Apart from the 14 floors occupied by the banker-owners, the building is already 90% rented, at $25 per sq. ft. -twice the going rate in the area. Bank executives estimate that a fourth of their total effort was devoted to developing 68,000 sq. ft. of retail space, which will return only some $1.5 million a year, compared with the $14 million they expect to realize from the office rentals. But The Market, which will be open seven days a week, is a showpiece of the Center. The first of its stores to open was Conran's, offshoot...