Word: erects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that its owner, the nearly bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Co., could not make any changes on the building's exterior without permission from the city's landmarks-preservation commission. Five months later Penn Central leased the airspace above the terminal to a British corporation that wanted to erect an office building on the site. Penn Central submitted to the landmarks commission two plans by Marcel Breuer. One envisioned a 55-story concrete skyscraper floating incongruously above the terminal's mansard roof. The other called for tearing down the facade of the old building and partly encasing...
...Edward Lear ("whimsical," Amis says, "to the point of discomfort"). Amis wants poems that raise "a good-natured smile." He argues that "light verse need not be funny, but what no verse can afford to be is unfunny." He stresses the technical hurdles that the light poet must erect and then clear; since he is up to something trivial, the artist must do it perfectly. "A concert pianist," Amis writes, "is allowed a wrong note here and there; a juggler is not allowed to drop a plate...
...tailored white suit and pink blouse, as blonde and nearly as smooth-cheeked at 41 as when she first stepped into the winner's circle as a teenager. He in a natty tan suit, his wiry, curly hair gone gray at 66, but otherwise the same trim, erect, rangy 190-pounder who played end for Georgia more than four decades ago. Since their marriage in 1972, Patrice and Louis Wolfson-the owners of Affirmed-have been one of the most successful racing couples in the sport. Their Harbor View stable is now the leading money winner. They...
Ultimately, Norris figures, America's cities will be rebuilt by big consortiums of private business. The Government will help guarantee bank loans and perhaps kick in some grants; churches and universities will put in investment funds. Construction companies will erect buildings; transport companies will bid for mass transit; energy, environmental control and waste recycling firms will all have roles, and much of the work will be parceled out to small business. The object is not only to raze and remake scabrous neighborhoods, but also to create private jobs, help small entrepreneurs and, not incidentally, to make money...
Overall, most analysts foresee ripple effects almost beyond imagining. The prospect of a leftist victory has already caused a flight of capital abroad; if the Socialists and Communists won-and reconciled their differences-the left would have to engineer tough new restrictions on capital flow and, to save jobs, erect new tariff barriers. Such protectionism would isolate France within the European Community and gradually cut the country off from its trading partners. Even for Frenchmen, that is a prodigiously high price to pay for a free lunch...