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...even some of its early promoters have had a change of heart. Architect Victor Gruen, who designed suburban Detroit's Northland and Eastland, Chicago's Randhurst and Philadelphia's Cherry Hill, as well as other successful shopping centers, is disillusioned with the ugliness and fast-buck approach of many projects. Says he: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments...
Fred Haber '79, who made the motion to table the issue, said, "If we have a lot of people screaming question at four administrators in Sanders Theatre, they'll just be able to pass the buck back and forth between one another...
...been. I'm going to use a lot of businesspeople to help solve some of our problems." His Democratic opponent, State Senator Robert Graham, wants to put a two-year freeze on all property taxes and establish a tax-reform commission. He claims to know the value of a buck, since he worked at 100 different jobs?from plumber to stable hand to cigar maker?during the primary campaign...
...quotations are seldom seen today. The people professedly live and work by Mao-Marxist cliches insisting that everyone's labor is for the greater good of socialism. In reality, as in any other country in the world, that means work hard and make a buck...
American heartland. Says Scaillet: "Ten or 15 years ago, American businessmen were so proud to have the dollar. If you talked about the possibility of a depreciating buck, they would laugh in your face. Now they are frequently more bearish on the dollar than the Europeans...