Word: rose
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Vacancy rates have seldom been lower in desirable parts of cities. Rents are double what they were at the start of the decade: $400-$750 for a one-bedroom unit on Manhattan's tony East Side, almost $300 in Miami and Los Angeles. Says Daniel Rose, chairman of the housing committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, where vacancies in Manhattan are running only 1½% to 2%: "We've never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there...
...University of Southern California Economist Arthur Laffer has shown in the so-called Laffer Curve, is that when taxes go up, economic activity goes down. Empires from Rome to Britain reached their fullest flower when their taxes were low, Wriston remarks, and started to self-destruct as taxes rose. Americans feel uneasy about their economy, partly because federal, state and local governments tax away 29% of the gross national product. Warns Wriston: "We are getting very close to the point where high taxes will cause the economy to deteriorate...
...solar is to contribute any significant part of the nation's energy needs. No more than 40,000 U.S. buildings of all kinds have solar devices, compared with 2 million in Japan and 220,000 (one-fifth of all homes) in Israel. Demand for solar units, which rose after the President's energy message a year ago, is now slack; the industry is troubled by some charlatans and rogues; manufacturers and contractors are confused by new regulations; and buyers are bewildered by on-again, off-again tax credits. As a result, a number of small manufacturing companies...
...garden became an exquisitely balanced artifact: rose arbors, willows, iris beds, raked paths, wisteria, a Japanese bridge and-most rewarding of all to the painter-ponds and water lilies. For the last 20 years of Monet's life, his "harem of nature," as Art Historian Kirk Varnedoe elegantly calls it, needed the services of six gardeners. After his death it began to decay. By 1966, when Monet's only surviving son-the reclusive Michel-died, the place had been closed to visitors, a shambles of rank growth and silted-up ponds. Recently, with a large grant from...
...images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor leading to his house, the water. To reproduce their subtleties is impossible; to recollect the differences of tone between one painting and another, apparently identical, defeats the most trained visual memory. But the show's organizers, Art Historians Charles Moffett...