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...center featured two 175-seat movie theaters, multilingual information desks, a "First Ladies of America" exhibit, a national bookstore and a Hall of States. Its centerpiece was an 8,000-sq.-ft. sunken area called the "Primary Audio-Visual Experience." Critics soon renamed it "the Pit." At a cost of $1.5 million, the Pit housed a large screen that flashed a nine-minute musical slide show called the "Welcome to Washington Presentation...
...offer is accepted, the firm will have to install a computer-controlled file locator system and conveyor belts throughout the tunnels in order to turn them into a vault. Cost: an estimated $2million. Despite those expenses, subterranean storage is expected to cost only $1 per sq. ft., compared with up to $50 per sq. ft. for aboveground space...
...shimmering office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain wrested from the tottering Qing Dynasty in 1898. Although earlier treaties gave Britain the remaining 34 sq. mi. in perpetuity, that area depends on the New Territories for food and water...
...Israel. Sadat was incensed. They began arguing about who had conquered whom, and I had to intercede to say that neither was claiming that the other represented a defeated nation. Sadat accused Begin of being interested primarily in the retention of occupied land. Begin retorted that 24,000 sq. mi. of territory were involved, that he was offering to return more than 90% of it to Egypt now, and merely postponing the sovereignty question on the other 2,340 sq. mi.?a figure that, I assumed at the time, was the area of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Senate seats go, the ones in Montana come fairly cheap. Despite its huge size (147,138 sq. mi.), the state has only 413,000 registered voters, and a candidate's campaign can be financed for well under a million dollars. Yet money looms as the big issue in Republican Challenger Larry Williams' attempt to unseat Democratic Incumbent John Melcher...