Word: spaciousness
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...well can enjoy the luxury of skepticism about the federation. The obstacles in the way of the union are numerous. Both Numeiry and Gaddafi realize that an Egyptian President, whoever he is, would always dominate the alliance. Sudan fears that Cairo will dump its excess population on the spacious land...
...that point, Trudeau's mind was just about made up. After canceling a ten-day trip to Russia scheduled for this week, he conferred with opposition leaders, former Prime Ministers, friends and aides in his spacious corner office in the Centre Block of Ottawa's solid gray federal complex. As a lifelong defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always...
...healthy young tree. It now extends through about 50 acres, linking offices, hotels, subways, railroad stations, theaters-all the places that keep downtown alive and zesty. Ponte sees two main reasons for the success. First, the walkways are carefully designed "not to make people feel like moles." Spacious, punctuated by open courtyards and lined with bright shops and good restaurants, the promenades are always full of people. Second, other developers soon joined and expanded the system because they saw that they could easily rent store frontage in basement areas. As a result, the city got a whole new level...
Gamy Strategy. None of this, however, kept the mighty roof from leaking, helped wash the 10,000 windowpanes, or prevented the spacious garden from going to weed. "Without a staff of at least 25 persons," says the castle's owner, the Count de la Panouse, "the domain falls apart." To finance the estate, the château was opened to the public in 1966, but the 20,000 visitors it drew that year were not enough to pay the bills. It was the count's son Paul, now 26, who persuaded his father to let him turn...
...solution was to start with what he called a "void," a blank circle on a spacious canvas, building color and movement around it. Soon the void developed into a stripe, or as he preferred to call it, a "zip." The zip usually zipped straight down for eight feet or so through an unmodulated expanse of plain color. When the paintings were shown in 1950 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, reactions ranged from negative to outrage. "You're a threat to us all," exclaimed one artist. What followed were perhaps Newman's bleakest years...