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...recap. I will make a good president because I'll cut the long taxes and redesign the oval office and punch Slobber Dan square in the nuts and stop education...
...office building in Europe, he brought off the seemingly impossible feat of building a supertower that could use natural ventilation (as against fuel-gobbling air conditioning) during 60% of the year. "Anything that reduces energy consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gases is good news," he says. In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster has carried this out to an extraordinary degree. He noted that the old Reichstag, heated and cooled by fossil fuels, produced 7,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Foster came up with a system of "driving the building...
...Piano's words, architecture involves walking "the knife edge between art and science": One day the architect is a poet, the next day an engineer. That fine edge was highlighted in the first part of his speech, which dealt with his redesign of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. This enormous, 5 million square foot space resonates with cultural significance, since it is both the former cultural center of Europe as well as the center of tragedy. The Cold War divide between East and West Germany, however, is now a matter for the history books, and Piano's task, as he noted...
...that it was closing 59 stores, laying off as many as 3,000 workers and taking a $495 million charge against earnings to slash inventory, a move that jolted its two biggest suppliers, Hasbro and Mattel, into announcing that they expect lower earnings. Toys "R" Us has undertaken a redesign of its stores and a new strategy of broadening its merchandise to include children's clothing and electronics. But it will also have to pull off a more difficult transformation. Says Sean McGowan, an industry analyst with Gerard Klauer Mattison in New York City: "Toys...
...regulated airline that could pass the entire expense on to its passengers. But such customization no longer flies in an era of deregulated fare wars. Says Robert Hammer, vice president in charge of bringing Boeing production techniques into the 21st century: "This is the largest, most complex business-redesign effort in the world. And we should not be proud of that. It's like saying you've got the biggest spring-housecleaning job in town...