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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lauren is building an ever larger retail network. The designer now sells his products in 48 franchised Polo shops, 132 department store boutiques and 16 discount outlets. In April he opened what his company calls the world's largest one-designer store, Polo/ Ralph Lauren, in a 20,000-sq.-ft. renovated mansion on Manhattan's tony Madison Avenue shopping strip. The Polo palace, which is the first retail store Lauren has owned outright, represents a gamble that one designer can produce enough strong-selling goods to support a department store-size emporium...
London's boom has also put a premium on office space. Rents are currently spiraling upward at a rate of 11% a year. Last spring the planning authority for the City of London authorized the construction of 20 million sq. ft. in new office space, nearly one-third of the existing total. Just outside the City, one of the largest new financial projects is planned for Canary Wharf, a $4 billion development on the once desolate patch of Thames dockland known as the Isle of Dogs...
...west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...
...Silicon Valley, California has long been the place where the newest manifestations of the American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high...
...Philmont Scout Ranch, a wide-open, 241-sq.-mi. Boy Scout camp in northern New Mexico, 15,000 scouts each year learn to set up tents and brave the elements. Rain and wind, bugs and varmints -- no problem. But bears...