Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that the new building will cost no more, and offer tenants greater variety, than conventional offices. Besides sliding French windows, there will be balconies that provide shade, individually controlled lighting known in trade parlance as "task lighting," and heat pumps that transfer hot air to chilly spots and vice versa. Tenants who prefer air-conditioning in hermetically sealed offices can create that environment by using the heat pumps...
...Jolson slam dunks kept Harvard down at 61-53, but Hooft suddenly came alive with 19 second-half tallies as the Crimson crept back to within two, 65-63. It was only the shade of Dartmouth, with two full-court Eli passes breaking the game open again, and the Crimson fell to 10-15, while Yale upped their Ivy slate to 3-10, and 8-15 overall...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...
...bedroom medieval French chateau. There he continues to produce work that sounds less like a grand seigneur than a great copywriter: "How would you like to watch a Wall Creeper running up and down the apricot walls?" he writes. "You lunch in the garden in the shade of a seventeenth-century holly tree...
...budget time inexorably forces-a President to stand somewhere. Carter rejected gimmickry. Should the budget be tailored to come in just a shade under $500 billion so the people would feel they were getting a bargain? No, decided Carter. His budget was pegged at $500.2 billion, a merchandiser's nightmare. Though he knows that a balanced budget in his first term is probably impossible, he was nearly apoplectic about waste when discovered, against direct Government payments in areas where private business could do the job. And yet he was always suspicious of bankers and other money manipulators, a firm...