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Eduard Amvroseyevich Shevardnadze begins his work day the moment he climbs into his black ZIL limousine for the 15-minute ride from his suburban dacha to downtown Moscow. Speeding along the boulevards of the Soviet capital, he telephones the Foreign Ministry for a summary of international news. By the time...
While he calls himself a modernist, Holl has conscientiously learned backward-looking lessons about building scale. "Buildings in general are too big," he says. "I'm happy doing houses and buildings a bit bigger than houses." The two largest projects Holl has designed, a planned addition to the University of...
Sometimes Trump shows an absolute genius for combining profits with publicity and doing good deeds in the process. Consider the Wollman ice- skating rink in Central Park, which city authorities had closed down in 1980 for a $9 million refurbishing. Somehow they managed to spend $12 million on preliminary maneuvering...
MST $$$, BLDG W VU The world's tallest skyscraper, Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower, went on the block for an asking price of at least $1 billion. Fearing corporate raiders, the giant retailer decided to sell the building to raise cash (its original cost in 1972: $200 million).
KKR's seeming weakness turned out to be a trap. The company's officers even let it be known that Kravis was heading to Vail, Colo., for a skiing weekend and that Roberts was flying back to his home in San Francisco. But Kravis and Roberts stayed in close touch...