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While he calls himself a modernist, Holl has conscientiously learned backward-looking lessons about building scale. "Buildings in general are too big," he says. "I'm happy doing houses and buildings a bit bigger than houses." The two largest projects Holl has designed, a planned addition to the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities School of Architecture and a West Berlin library extension, would each be only about a tenth as big as a modest skyscraper...
...That year, in a small office on 17th Street in Manhattan, two young men, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, wrote a prospectus for a radically new magazine that became TIME. Hadden lived only long enough to see TIME become a success; under Luce, Time Inc. grew into the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. When Luce died in 1967, Time Inc. had four magazines. Today it publishes 13 and is part owner of another eleven. Along the way it also became one of America's most significant book, video and cable-TV companies...
...years ago," said a haggard-looking Frank Lorenzo. "But I never believed that we would be here today." Thus, six days into a bitter walkout by some 9,000 mechanics, baggage handlers and other members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Eastern last week became the largest airline in history to go bust. And even as Lorenzo vowed to bring Eastern out of bankruptcy stronger than ever, he conceded that it might be impossible to avoid selling off more of Eastern's already depleted assets...
...strike despite the risk that they might force the 60-year- old carrier to go belly up -- and lose Eastern's 31,200 jobs in the process. For Lorenzo, the intense chairman of Eastern's parent firm, Texas Air, the prospects were no better: the nation's seventh largest airline was clearly in for a bone-jarring ride, huge financial losses and a very uncertain landing...
...State James Baker is one of the most powerful men in Washington. But his tenure as Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary has left a sorry legacy: the failure of the so-called Baker plan, the 1985 policy designed to ease the debt burden of Third World nations. The 15 largest borrowers, most of them in Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed...