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That decline has given a charge to the housing market. The Commerce Department reported last week that sales of new single-family homes jumped 4.4% in January, to an annual rate of 753,000, the highest level in more than two years. Experts predict that builders will start construction on as many as 1.8 million houses, condos and apartments this year, up slightly from last year's strong showing. Existing homes are selling at an annual rate of 3.32 million units, the highest since 1979. Says Maurice Sanderman, president of Sundance Homes, a Woodridge, Ill.-based builder: "There...
...colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City of London...
...intend to continue to consult with the President. I will not create problems." Soares responded in kind, noting that "the President is the guarantor, the moderator, not the governor." Indeed, his new role seemed tailor made for the durable Socialist leader who has long been more of a consensus builder than an ideologue...
...into the unfinished basement of his Rockville, Md., home. Dubbed Sweeney's Cave, it is now paneled in pale birch, carpeted in light blue and crammed with gym equipment. Among its features: a bench press, an arm-curling machine, lower-back- and leg-strengthening devices and a chest builder. Sweeney, who is the owner of an auto-painting and body shop, boasts, "Nobody has a gym like mine...
...million different excuses not to go work out," he says. He spent about $1,500 converting the downstairs family room of his suburban Larchmont, N.Y., home into an exercise room, installing two stationary bikes, a rowing machine, a cross-country skiing machine, a Nautilus for the Home abdominal builder and a practice putting green. Jim Kramer, 25, a Miami accountant, for $1,500 purchased several machines, which he placed on his screened-in porch. "If I want to work out at 3 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning, I can do it," he says...