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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company was focused on the ground: it gradually began offering more and more components to the auto industry, from visor brackets to complete roof systems. As the order books bulged, so did Stronach's paycheck--by 1987 he had become Canada's highest-paid executive. Around that time, Magna's engineers developed the Torrero from the company's components inventory to drive home a point: it's not the parts that matter; it's how they fit together that counts. Dennis Blommers, a plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much...
...about their tasks, yet the building feels empty. The windows bring people to the sky. "When it's a nice day," says McDonough, "why feel as if you've missed it?" Stand in practically any spot, and one can see the greenery of the outside trees, the grassy lower roof or the grasses growing in one of the two interior courtyards. Light is everywhere. It fills the vast open hallways that seem to stretch on forever under ceilings 15 ft. high. McDonough says, "People have lofty thoughts in lofty places...
Construction will not replicate the tower as itwas when it burned--copperclad and adorned withclocks on all sides. Rather, the building willmirror its 1878 appearance, with colored slate tomatch the roof and a bevy of copper crockets,pinnacles, parapets, fenestrals and finials...
Most importantly, final clubs are dangerous. Not only have female guests often found themselves in compromising situations, but the clubs also constitute a potentially hazardous environment for the surrounding community. Last year, three students were arrested for throwing bricks from the roof of the A.D.--an irresponsible act which could have resulted in serious injury. In this light, it is understandable that the graduate boards of the four clubs have expressed concerns over "alcohol-related incidents," "accidents" and "property destruction...
...though it remains limited. Two weeks ago, I joined an American delegation from the Atlanta-based Carter Center to observe a township election of government officials and People's Congress representatives in China's Sichuan province. When we arrived in Banqiao (pop. 1,987), a hamlet of thatch-roof houses and muddy roads, the villagers had gathered on the basketball court of a local school to elect three representatives to the township. People's Congress. There wasn't a lot of choice: four candidates, all picked by the party, for three seats...