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Innovative as it is, the Audubon building might be written off as an impractical exercise in spare-no-expense radical environmentalism, except for one thing: the society demanded that every design decision had to satisfy the kind of bottom-line scrutiny a tightwad CEO would apply. Though it cost up to 10% more to build green than to build conventionally, Audubon president Peter Berle insisted that every environmental measure taken in the $14 million project had to justify its cost within a five-year period. Says Berle: "It was an opportunity to build a structure that would both save Audubon...
...Time Gospel Hour television audience on Nov. 8 that he objected to having a "womanizer" in the White House and said he had a tape of Clinton and Flowers discussing oral sex. Falwell did not reveal precisely the source or nature of the recording and, as if to spare his fellow worshippers the experience, told them he would not play it. But, he said, "it makes it a little hard for me having heard him say that . . . to, uh, respect...
...they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says Alan Berry, a 34-year-old laborer out of work for a year. "It's not like we had the $299 to spare...
...Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...
Though reducing subsidies for the well-off would spare the majority of Americans, a Clinton adviser surmises that "the problem is ((the cutbacks)) hit almost every member of the political class: in Congress, the Cabinet, the White House staff, the national news media, the business managers and professionals, the campaign contributors." Clinton, however, may have no choice but to further squeeze the well-off if he can't raise the money he needs from all his countrymen...