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...will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface ornament and a decoratively tapered top. Barring an unlikely reversal at the final vote next month, modernism is about to be outlawed in San Francisco...
Injuries, the ultimate in unforeseeable and painful variables, have afflicted Harvard in bulk over the past few seasons, suddenly and permanently throwing into jeopardy the Crimson’s tenuous Ivy League title aspirations...
...would pound. But once the food had been devoured, I would be overcome with an urgent need to separate myself from it before it took up residence inside me. Nothing could have stood in the way of my getting rid of it, differentiating myself from it--from the toxic bulk that had seemed so like a mother's nurture in the beginning--because if it remained within me, I knew that my life would be snuffed out. Afterward I would collapse into bed and sink into a numbed sleep. Tomorrow will be different. It never was. What an illusion that...
PETER JACKSON, Bloxham Stockbrokers analyst, following the second death of a patient taking the drug once hoped to capture the bulk of the $4 billion market for treating multiple sclerosis
...seeks to make excerpts of copyrighted material publicly available, a service that Amazon has provided for years. Even if the project did technically violate existing copyright law, this legal complication would derive from the obsolescence of copyright law, not the law’s actual intent. After all, the bulk of copyright law was written before digitization or the Internet ever existed. In fact, the true spirit of the copyright statutes has always been to benefit, not detriment, of the academic community. Copyright law is aimed against plagiarizers and pirates, not responsible institutions providing a service for the public good...