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...proprietor: Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin. The $20 million tab was steep even for Cardin, 58, who lately seems more interested in haute finance than haute couture. He has had designs on the art nouveau establishment since 1978, when Maxim's present owners, Louis and Maggie Vaudable, agreed to lend the eatery's venerable name to a Cardin-owned line of boutiques and consumer products. The French designer now hopes to squeeze even more profits out of the name by launching a chain of mini-Maxim's boutiques in the U.S. and Japan...
...solution has been for sellers to lend money to the buyers at a more affordable 11% or 12%. That cuts down on an owner's profit, but at least makes it possible to sell property in today's sluggish market. The National Association of Realtors estimates that half of home sales now involve some sort of seller financing...
Last week the directors of other libraries from Hoover to Johnson came to admire the new architecture, landscaping, electronic retrieval devices and pictorial displays. Cabinet members from Ford's Administration assembled for reminiscences, and friends joined to lend their good wishes...
...geodesic dome. Dymaxion map. Geoscope and other inventions have made Fuller known as one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Despite initial failures, including being expelled twice and never graduating from Harvard, these early successes lend credibility to his ideas. The 85-year-old Fuller succeeds primarily be perceiving the world and mankind in large terms: he defines the universe as the "omni-interaccommodative, nonsimultaneous, and only partially overlapping, omni-intertransforming. self-regenerating scenario...
...Receipt of first-year grades can lend to the first year a layer of tension and competitiveness intense enough to detract from the educational process," the report states...