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...posh are the facilities that shoppers and tourists often pay a visit whether nature is calling or not. The rest rooms feature soft lighting, gold- plated fixtures, marble changing tables (complete with complimentary diapers), marble-and-gold phone booths and automatic toilets. Since the mall opened last August, says general manager David Wass, beaming, "it's not uncommon for people with relatives or visitors in town to show them the rest rooms...
Last Sunday, several members of the committee met with Feldstein for more than three hours at a posh Fifth Avenue hotel in New York City...
Some cities are virtual disaster areas. San Bernardino, glut capital of America, has a commercial vacancy rate of 33%. Next come New Haven (30%) and Springfield, Mass., and New Orleans (both 28%). Even in posh Beverly Hills, the rate is so high (25%) that city officials journeyed to the Orient in January to try to woo prospective tenants. Bucking the trend are a few lucky cities, most of them sleepy state capitals that hotshot dealmakers bypassed in the '80s. Among them: Lansing, Mich. (10%), Albany (9.6%), Raleigh, N.C. (9.4%) and Sacramento...
...posh Denver grocery store, the bakery section this week featured "war-time cake." Modeled on cake made in Britain during World War II rationing, when families lacked food and the country lived in terror of being invaded, this cake contains almost no milk or eggs. It was an invention of a time when there was nothing else to do but make do with what little there...
Harvard touts its stellar, accessible faculty to prospective students. Indeed, many professors do hold office hours or accept an occasional lunch invitation from a student. But for the most part, they dine in the posh club where "in winter the fire in the fireplace creates a warm setting for relaxed conversation while in all seasons museum art enlivens the walls." No bothersome students to deal with there...