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Goff died in 1982 at 78. The design was finished by his disciple Bart Prince, to whom the urban fabric of Los Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts pseudo-Aztec mosaic panels; its tower, which looked like a Hawaiian chief's headdress clapped on top of a random-rubble grotto, has been pruned; and the millions of little round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream...
...worldwide in the past 18 months, but the company is lagging behind its rivals in growth. While competitors are expected to sell 11.6 million machines this year, 26% more than in 1987, IBM's unit sales are likely to grow 18%. Even though minicomputers and mainframes account for the bulk of IBM's total revenues ($54.2 billion in 1987) and PCs for only 10%, the desktop market has become a high-prestige field of competition...
...winning the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rural West Texas and the Panhandle. Democrats hope to split Houston with the G.O.P. and roll up a huge margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East Texas, home to the bulk of the state's 2 million swing voters, a quarter of the total. But there is a demographic codicil: the Democratic margin in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley depends heavily on retaining the loyalty of Hispanic voters, who are being assiduously courted by Bush. "Name me a Hispanic who doesn...
...nearly a quarter of military recruits cannot understand written safety instructions to the growing shortage of students in science and engineering. At the dawn of a new era of international competition, less than one-quarter of public high school students are currently enrolled in a foreign-language course. The bulk of American students cannot locate the world's most important nations on a map if their lives depend on it, which, in a sense, they...
...Sales of oatmeal have jumped 20% this year, and oat- bran purchases have more than quintupled. The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is working three shifts every day and still not meeting demand. At the Real Food Co. in San Francisco, a health-food emporium, sales of bulk oat bran have tripled in the past year to 1,000 lbs. a month. Sales of oat- based breakfast cereals and cookies have exploded 500% at Alfalfa's Market in Boulder...