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...story building owned by the Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. Although it was built in the 1920s, says Pereira, "it is always 100% occupied, and one of the principal reasons is that it has openable windows." He designed the Pacific Mutual building not only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that the new building will cost no more, and offer tenants greater variety, than conventional offices. Besides sliding French windows, there will be balconies that provide shade, individually controlled lighting known in trade...
...assortment of weapons, including nuclear bombs-though the planes to be sold to the Saudis and the Israelis will not be equipped to carry these. Managing this arsenal, while also flying at speed and keeping track of other craft, can be a handful, which is why pilots are particularly fond of the Heads Up Display panel, or HUD. This is a device that projects all the computerized combat-and flight-performance data right onto the windshield in a green phosphorescence that stands out even in strong sunlight. Thus the pilot does not have to look down at his instruments...
...very top and bottom of the line, many brands are similar in quality; yet a special mystique makes it In to buy and use a certain one. Nowadays, from Mt. Fuji to Mt. Blanc-with many mts. in Colorado and Vermont in between-the fashionable ski is "Rossi," fond nickname for the product of Skis Rossignol, a company with headquarters in the French alpine town of Voiron. Rossignol, counting its Dynastar subsidiary, sells more than 16% of the world's skis-1.5 million of the 9 million pairs marketed last year. Before Rossignol's ascendancy, Japan held...
Unlike a lot of Irish-Americans, though, O'Neill is fond of lending support in a big way--by raising money from all the paunchy middle-class accountants and cab drivers who are convinced that a donation to "The Cause" will buy them an ounce or two of secondhand glory. It's not quite like selling indulgences, as the priests were fond of doing in the good old days, but it's close enough. And that makes it tougher for O'Neill to back out of the deal when he realizes where all that money is going...
There is great sympathy in these songs, observations that can be caustic and still stay fond. Work like this makes it quite plain that for all the contradictions, Billy Joel is writing and singing some of the best pop music in the neighborhood. It might even make Virginia Callahan think twice...