Word: blinder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another problem is the endless updating of electronic technology, which makes many a computer supposedly obsolete just when its user has finally learned how to handle it. "I think the technology gets churned too frequently," says Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. "Every time we have to learn a new system, there is a decline in productivity...
...This 1913 Beaux Arts gem is one of America's grandest buildings. But it had fallen into neglect and clutter. Now architects Beyer Blinder Belle have brought back its luster. They reopened walkways, top right, and restored the ethereal ceiling over the main concourse, left. Upscale businesses like Michael Jordan's steak house, bottom, add new sparkle. When: Official rededication...
...Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton, writes in the November-December 1997 edition of Foreign Affairs that government is too political. That is his way of saying that the people, through their elected representatives, are incapable of self-rule. In the name of greater efficiency and prosperity, Blinder would send complex and contentious political questions to unelected bureaucrats, further degrading Americans' honor when we should be reclaiming...
Those like Blinder-most of them are academics--who would dishonor Americans should remember one obvious and telling fact. We revere individuals like Peyton Manning, but we despise leeches like the disbelieving sports agent...
...York Botanical Garden London's Crystal Palace is gone, but this turn-of-the-century greenhouse in the Bronx is alive and glinting. To restore this sizable jewel box, which showcases an indoor spectacle of plant life, required 17,000 new panes of glass. The firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which also restored Ellis Island and Grand Central Terminal, gives back to America one more piece of its indispensable but fragile past...