Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARCHITECTS GENERALLY ARE dour people. Since they're half professionals, half artists, neither side of them is ever entirely content. But Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch-born architect-prophet whom today's young architects most want to grow up to be, is smiling. He's thinking about the deep, vision-supporting pockets of his first American client, MCA-Universal, which has appointed him to oversee plans for most of a $3 billion expansion of Universal City in California. Why choose Koolhaas? "I think it's because of his grandfather," says Koolhaas of Edgar Bronfman Jr., grandson of the man who asked...
...administrators saw as a lack of diversity in the houses. But less than two weeks after the policy's initial implementation, the dean of the College has had to reverse one of the policy's major tenets, as criticism from a number of minority student groups has continued to grow...
...champion which has benefited from government subsidies, he happily cites Airbus Industries. That choice would be hilarious, if it were not quite so bizarre: most Europeans are hardly bursting with pride over the alleged success of Airbus. It is the classic case of the "infant industry" that refuses to grow up, constantly sucking in subsidies which have promoted gross inefficiency and stifled innovation...
...realistic expectations. Hyakutake is as bright as a bright star overall, but its light is diluted over an area twice the size of the full moon; it's a glowing blob rather than a fiery point. There won't be much of a tail at first, but one will grow over the next few weeks, making the comet even more prominent through April. And after it fades from view later in the spring, comet lovers have a treat to look forward to next year: a second new comet, called Hale-Bopp. Astronomers are predicting--cautiously--that this one could...
...surrounded by federal agents. Freemen sympathizers predicted that hundreds would heed their call to show those in the "Justus Township" farm that they shared their anti-government sentiments, but more reporters than participants turned up at the Lewistown event. Organizer Edward LeStage said he was confident the numbers would grow during the week. "The word is going out," LeStage said. "We're here for the duration. We'll be staying until the FBI leaves Jordan." The Idaho group had chosen Lewistown at the request of federal officials who ordered them to stay away from "Justus Township," the Freeman...