Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the world, it is fitting that the elder statesman of Japanese design, Kenzo Tange, 73, should become the first of his countrymen to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, announced last week, went to one of the most important modernists of his generation, a master builder who can point to a body of work that is large, far-flung and confident. Tange was a committed and conscientious designer in the International Style during its heyday, a modernist who resisted the easiest answers of modernism during his prime...
...cultural diversity in Central Square is an issue right now. The building houses cultural groups which remain true to the spirit of the original builder," Aileen S. Y. Chong-LeBlanc, a dancer who used to work at 595 Mass...
...added to the pressure on shaky developers. Two weeks ago Dallas-based Vantage Companies, the seventh largest U.S. developer, notified its creditors of plans to delay some loan payments and restructure as much as $1 billion in debts. Last week Austin-based Nash Phillips Copus, the seventh largest U.S. builder of single-family homes, put itself into Chapter 11 proceedings...
...should be "someone with credibility on Capitol Hill, credibility with the press, credibility with party people. More important, he should be a believer in the Reagan program and able to carry it out. I'm talking about a Washington political heavyweight." Most of that fits Baker, a patient coalition builder who acquired enough political heft during his 18 years in the Senate to have had a long-shot chance at the presidency. He was, in fact, briefly a rival of Reagan's for the 1980 nomination, and was preparing a run for the 1988 prize when he agreed to fold...
Khashoggi has no real consolidated corporate power base. He is a master broker but a precarious builder. Instead of constructing institutions, he has created a cult of personality. He is the product of the Middle East, where loyalty is to individuals, not institutions; he understands the psychology of one-on-one haggling, not the culture of corporations. "I am a trader," he says. "If I can make a decent profit, I prefer to take it and get out. There are others who hang on to an investment in the hope of realizing profits several times the money invested. They...