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Their self-esteem, for once, would soar...
Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough to win a new suitor. According to the Wall Street Journal, the landmark's current owner, Prudential Insurance Co., is selling the legendary edifice for a comparatively paltry $40 million. The reported buyer: a member of the Grace family, which founded W.R. Grace...
...same information. He sent his request to TRW, one of the companies that compile credit histories, along with a $16 fee. While waiting for the copy, Richard, who strikes most of us as about as likely to get into credit trouble as he is to sprout wings and soar from his 23rd-floor-office window, combed through his memory for any instances of financial delinquency. "I once borrowed $25 from a friend in high school," he recalls. "But I was pretty sure I had paid it back before too long...
...think there are any hard statistics on that, but my guess is there has been an increase. There has been an enormous increase in violent crime in this country in the past 30 years. Homicide rates have doubled and continue to soar. There is such a culture of violence now that surrounds young people that I would suspect violent rates in all areas would be going...
...Many don't, after all. But then, it's becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage. The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and expectations, refuse to * be broken. You can hear House of Hope pouring out of the car radio this summer...