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Although a state planning board recently gave its sanction to the project, the state's office of environmental affairs must still review a draft of an environmental impact report (EIR). And a source in that office says that the office, which will issue its recommendations this week, may ask for the EIR to be rewritten from scratch...
...approval, the planning board answered some of the community's fears by cutting the maximum allowable retail space by about one quarter. As approved, the Carpenter development would have about 65,000 sq. feet for shops and about 25,000 sq. feet for restaurants and "entertainment facilities"--an area three times the size of the Galeria and double the floor space of the Garage...
...underwriters-including the Abu Dhabi Investment Co.-were involved in the syndicate selling the issue, and their losses may run as high as $25 million. The main reason was that the Federal Reserve Board jumped the gun in pushing up the discount rate to banks to a record...
...dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will be in Dorchester." Architect I.M. Pei prepared new designs (he eventually made a total of five before the Kennedys-chiefly Jackie-approved). The new plans featured more flamboyant geometry and a glass pavilion with a view...
Thou shalt, Writer Gay Talese earnestly hopes, covet Thy Neighbor's Wife. That's the title of the latest book by erstwhile New York Timesman Talese, 47, who spent eight intriguing and, some suspect, interminable years in bedrooms, board rooms, massage parlors, even on a free-love farm, researching the changing sexual mores of middle-class America. The conclusions are so enticing that the book, with the publication date still six months away, already has earned nearly $4 million, including a $2.5 million film-rights agreement last week. Now that the sex epic has climaxed, Talese wants...