Word: omni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whyte's photos make clear, the worst offenders are convention centers, like the one in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, and the new megastructure office, hotel and shopping centers, such as the Bonaventure Hotel and Atlantic Richfield Plaza in Los Angeles, the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco and Omni International in Atlanta. Architecturally, these structures often have an awesome and arrogant beauty. Socially, they set themselves deliberately and offensively apart from the city around them...
...copy the Rabbit's front-wheel design and efficient use of interior space. Today's car buyers can choose from a number of similar-looking makes, including the Mazda GLC, which sells for $5,295,'and Chrysler's $5,840 Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni. Those base prices are well below the $6,290 for the standard Rabbit. In a desperation move last May, Volkswagen cut the sticker price of the Rabbit by up to $625. Not only did sales remain weak, but a company executive conceded that the firm was losing about $600 on every...
...authors of the book retracted his thesis in a 1980 Omni magazine article, saying that it had been disproven. Interest has continued to increase since then, nevertheless...
...eight prizewinning years, Nova proved that straight science can sell. Result: the program has been crowded out of its regular Tuesday night slot by a host of imitators, including Walter Cronkite's irregularly scheduled Universe and Bob Guccione's hyperthyroid Omni...
...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...