Word: levers
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When the committee eventually makes its recommendations, the mayor will still have a hard time pushing them through Boston's obstinate School Committee. The mayor's only direct lever in school affairs is his power to veto increases in the School budget each year. That is hardly a sufficient weapon to convince the School Committee to approve broad-reaching reforms. The mayor is counting therefore on using indirect political pressure on the Committee. Any proposal, of course, will have his authority behind it. It will also be backed by the authority of the six-man committee--a group whose members...
...evident. Buffeted by the Czech crisis and persistent clamor for an upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have been a real danger of sudden and uncoordinated disintegration of the sterling area and a tremendous smashup of the international monetary system, including...
...well, a smashing success. But the display, as Peter Townshend admits, "is an act, and it really is meaningless." It is also troublesome, since it requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as one of England's leading rock groups, and they are rapidly winning frenzied admirers in America...
...town that was constructed in complete secrecy, eventually grew to a population of 75,000. In its wake came jobs to design a hotel, airbases in Morocco, and three towns in Okinawa. Having achieved a reputation for bigness, S.O.M. earned a name for high-quality design with Manhattan's Lever House. Lever has since been copied so often?and so badly?that it has lost much of its impact. But 16 years ago, it astonished and delighted the U.S. In its use of sheer glass curtain walls, its spacious plaza (75% of the site), and bold positioning of horizontal slab...
Senior designer and the man responsible for eight of the firm's 13 top A.I.A. awards is Gordon Bunshaft, 59, whom Owings calls "the great classicist." Shock-haired and explosive, a bon vivant and art lover, "Bun" set the firm on the high road to quality with Lever House, most recently has turned out the Hirshhorn Gallery for Washington, and the L.B.J. library for Austin, Texas. Notably outspoken, he has been known to tell a client: "Take it all or nothing." In Chicago, Walter Netsch, 48, is dubbed "the professor" by Owings. Research-oriented, he appeals especially to institutions, designed...