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...result tends to please almost everybody. Says Charles Gill, a planning official in San Francisco: "Tenants end up with larger spaces, bigger windows, higher ceilings and generally a more pleasant environment." The city benefits through increased property taxes; for example, since 1970, when Seattle developers started fixing up the Skid Road area of late 19th century buildings, property values in the 74-acre district have risen 450%. There is another fringe benefit: old buildings, unlike today's unvaried glass and steel boxes, are visual reminders of a city's individuality. "They are friendly structures," says Michael Leventhal...
...nation might muddle through one more time: Britain is in the position of the debtor whose creditors can ill afford to force him under because they would lose too much in the process. For example, if oil-rich Arabs started withdrawing their huge deposits from London, the pound would skid much further, thus diminishing the value of the Arabs' sterling holdings before they could convert them to some other currency. But the dependence on foreign money is not only humiliating for the nation that was once the world's greatest financial power, it is risky in the extreme...
...have to. Inside the airbase, a damaged American helicopter, one skid broken off, lay on the ground, its rotor still spinning. A tremendous explosion rocked our bus as a North Vietnamese 130-mm. shell hit the Air America terminal just across the road. "Don't panic!" shouted our Marine escort...
...Says the mission chaplain, George Caywood: "Everybody is looking at everybody else. We're all praying the Lord will help the police. These men are our friends. It really grieves us to see them so frightened." But no one could offer them any reason to hope that the Skid Row Slasher would not strike again...
Floor Traffic. Thus the sudden skid in car sales hit the already shaky economy with the impact of a runaway truck, toppling it into a much deeper recession than almost anyone had anticipated. Government economists estimate that the car slump accounted for fully half of the 9.1% decline in gross national product in the fourth quarter of 1974 and was the major factor in lifting the nation's jobless rate to more than 7%. Moreover, chances for even a moderate business recovery in the year ahead depend to an enormous degree on a resurgence of car sales...