Word: open-ended
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...Dresdner Bank-formed a Luxembourg-based company called Pipeline Finance to raise as much as $1 billion over the next eight years to bring the new fuel to European households and industry. For the small investor, a consortium of British, Dutch, German and Belgian banks has just created an open-end mutual fund, Intergas, that offers participation in the oil, equipment, transport and construction companies that are already starting to profit from the gas boom...
...curvy, the Arthur W. Milam house in northern Florida is all right angles. Architect Paul Rudolph, another Gropius alumnus, designed a series of concrete block rectangles that turn the house's seaside exposure into a mammoth Mondrian. It is a straight place, but not all for show; the open-end geometry that ornaments the facade functions as a sunbreak and keeps the interior cool without cumbersome draperies. The house is built on seven levels that form a series of "living platforms," the lowest being a utility room, while the uppermost is a rooftop lookout-a modern version...
...most painful expositions of screeching insanity ever seen in print. At a time when our crushing load of taxation is stifling our industry, blocking our social progress and bringing joy to our enemies, an endless torrent of taxpayers' dollars is being recklessly poured into an open-end inverted rathole...
...rise of the open-end international Society has naturally meant the decline of the Social Register as an index of who really "belongs." It is still important to the New Guard, for whom a listing is almost the only way left to know one is better than one's neighbors. Those who are knocking at the Register's door no longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death...
...open-end Society shows no signs of reverting to the closed, bloodline formalities of the past-urbanization and the high mobility of jet-age living will keep it open, just as water in constant motion does not freeze. This is not completely to the good; the old landed families, for all their stuffiness, produced standards and had the authority to enforce them. It will be the responsibility of America's New Guard, busily working up on charities and civic enterprises and into the Social Register, to nurture an elite of service to counterbalance the merely rich, chic and amusing...