Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...
...Hiroshima Peace Center. * Finished in stages during the early 1950s, the complex is a complete preview, in miniature,of Tange's architectural career. Nearly all of his low-rise, high-modern ideas are on display: the International Style box, the inverted cone, the rough concrete pillars, the swooping concrete shell. The details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel trusses, a wing- like cantilever from which the factory's glass...
Working with Illinois Bell, McDonald's is now using ISDN technology to link its Oak Brook, Ill., headquarters with its Chicago regional office. Tenneco and Shell Oil will begin tests by early next year. To the consternation of the local and regional Bells, a few companies, including Westinghouse and the Travelers insurance firm, have installed their own ISDN internal systems. The Bells are concerned that they may lose some of their largest customers if more companies follow suit...
...menacing quiet fills the empty streets. Stray dogs and cats poke through the rubble of collapsed houses destroyed by Iranian 122-mm rockets. Here a shell has gouged a water-filled crater in the center of a once lovingly manicured lawn. There a shattered iron gate hangs limply from its hinges outside a small garage. An occasional car filled with wide-eyed Iraqi sightseers cruises the streets, but the passengers seldom stop. It is as if they are afraid the attacks will resume any moment...
...Iranians are clearly trying to break the city's will. Nearly every building along the section of the Shatt al Arab that flows past Basra has been damaged or destroyed. The beige facade of the deserted four-story Sheraton Basra is pockmarked with shrapnel and shell holes. During the intense bombardment in January and February, thousands of panicked residents abandoned their middle-class brick homes near the water...