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Roller operates the warehouse for the surplus property division of Iowa's department of general services for the benefit of some 1,500 public agencies in Iowa. A beneficent act of Congress requires that federal excess property be offered to state and local agencies, virtually free of charge, before it is put on public auction. That means before all those cigar-chomping characters who excel at turning a profit from reselling Government castoffs can lay hands...
Moreover, the steel market is suffering from excess capacity. In recent years, developing countries from Saudi Arabia to South Korea have rushed to build their own steel plants, thus cutting imports from the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. Brazil, a traditional importer, has even begun to export raw steel products. While steel production in the industrialized countries is expected to fall by 8.1% during the fourth quarter, it will increase by 7.1% in the developing nations. At the same time, some industrial countries like Italy and West Germany have continued to build new, more efficient plants, even though the international...
...modern style, many architects now indulge in haphazard eclectisism. He welcomes the return of the figurative in architecture, the use of forms inbued with cultural meaning and associations. He approves, to a certain degree, of the wit and irony of post-modern designs. He worries, however, that an excess of such levity will weaken the impact of the figurative, resulting in "an unconscious trivialization of meaning." He senses a dangerous carelessness in architects who "casually pick up bits and pieces of history." The wit, the irony, the humor become a way of not addressing the real issues. "The architect must...
There are more than a few milligrams of arrogance in all this. The camera lingers too often on the Sagan profile. His lyrical language sometimes lapses into flowery excess, and occasionally Cosmos' galloping pace straggles to a crawl. But without a doubt, Sagan makes science as palatable as the apple pie he lovingly cuts up in a Cambridge University dining room in order to make a point about matter. He is the quintessential schoolmaster; he makes such a classical experiment as Christiaan Huygens' determination of the distance of the stars with only a perforated brass disc seem as vivid today...
...amplify Sophie Sparrow's article in todays Crimson (Oct.8th) on the IRS rulings based on Thor vs. IRS: the decision by publishers to destroy overstocks or cut back printings of specialized books (or not to publish these titles at all) in order to avoid excess tax liability will work to the extreme disadvantage of faculty, students, and libraries. It will become increasingly difficult for scholars to find publishers for specialized works and for libraries to find added copies or replacements for scholarly titles required, for example, for reserve reading. In both cases, students at all levels of post-secondary study...