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Apart from his philosophical disinclination to build behemoths, it is hard to imagine Holl producing anything so large that he could not personally fret over every detail. The walls he designed for one apartment, for instance, tilt for arcane aesthetic reasons at precisely 4 degrees. Given the chance, Holl designs not just a building but also its custom chairs, custom lighting fixtures, custom rugs, custom windows and custom door handles. His signature gesture, geometric figures imprinted onto everything from windows to tableware in a kind of new-age homage to Johannes Kepler, can seem the impulse of a meticulous craftsman...
...Tigers, seeded 16th in the East Regional, used a patient spread offense to frustrate the top-seeded Hoyas and build a 10-point lead early in the second half. But the Hoyas rallied behind Mourning, a 6-ft., 10-in. freshman center, who finished with 21 points...
...proposal to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf station is a perfect example. Harvard solicited community input on the design of the hotel and tried to make sure it would include things the neighborhood wanted. But it was not until members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences criticized the project that the University sat up and realized that the basic idea of putting a hotel on the site needed to be reevaluated. Community residents who objected to the project received little attention...
When the family moved to California, the land consisted of 40 acres of woods, with no house, electricity or running water. Everyone, including the young sons, helped to build the house, as well as smaller barns and sheds...
While the latch problem may not have been directly related to the plane's age, newer aircraft generally need less maintenance than older jets. Most of the major carriers, especially the profitable ones, are upgrading their fleets as fast as the aircraftmakers can build them. United took delivery of 23 new Boeing 737-300s in the second half of 1988, thus lowering the average age of its 400-jet fleet from 14.9 years in July to 13.5 years as of Jan. 1. The American fleet, which averaged 10.8 years old last July, has been reduced to 9.4 years currently...