Word: complexities
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After Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty next week, it goes before the Senate for a ratification debate that will range over the whole relationship between the world's two superpowers. To help clarify some of the complex issues, TIME last week convened a panel of experts for an all-day conference in Manhattan. Among them were two of the key Senate staff members now polishing arguments for the showdown on the floor: Richard Perle, 37, a former consultant to the Defense Department, adviser to SALT Critic Henry Jackson of Washington and widely considered...
...heat liquid ammonia into gas, which would drive a turbine, and then draw up cold water through long pipes to recool the gas into liquid. Tested as early as the 1930s, the idea has been shown to work, but it has never been very economical. A 10,000-Mw complex, enough for 6.6 million people, would cost $25 billion...
From San Francisco's pioneering Ghirardelli Square and Boston's celebrated Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market complex, from Manhattan's reclaimed SoHo district to Sacramento's rehabilitated Skid Row, the emphasis is not so much on reverential restoration of old buildings as on their modernization and re-use without distortion of their original character. While this trend was long resisted by architects who feel that their role is to leave their own creative imprint on the cityscape, many of the nation's top architectural firms have joined the movement to preserve and refit. Three years...
More specialized ventures recognized by the A.I.A. were the conversion of a lecture hall into gallery space and construction of an underground auditorium by Herbert S. Newman Associates at Yale's Center for American Arts, and the creation of a striking office complex within a four-story 1896 bank building in Princeton, N.J. Interestingly, Michael Graves, 44, who was responsible for the design, achieved prominence in the early 1970s as a leader of a highly theoretical group of architects specializing in abstract form. Graves has since redesigned some two dozen old buildings, and is currently converting a 1906 railway...
...Financial aid at Harvard is need-based and we are most generous in this regard," Keenan explains. He believes that although the system for financial grants is complex, it works and "we will stick with it." And about financial aid for minority students, Lipsky says that so far the GSAS has been able to support the minority students to whom they've offered positions, adding that many have outside money with GSAS fellowships as additional aid. "Nobody has ever been turned away for lack of funds," Lipsky says. But she acknowledges that the graduate school will eventually be unable...