Word: suede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Isozaki's design did not fare smoothly at first. It fell afoul of a small group of trustees headed by Industrialist Max Palevsky, who, along with Eli Broad, put up the initial seed money for the museum -- $1 million each, spread over four years. Palevsky wanted a plain hangar of...
American companies often take legal action to keep imported knock-offs of their products out of the U.S. But Lever Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are...
But as oil dropped from $32 a barrel to $9, the Texas economy went dry -- and just about everything that Connally and Barnes touched turned bad. Their $14 million, 14-story office building in Houston, 80% vacant, was foreclosed on and sold at auction. A swanky housing development, Triple Crown...
Soon after Adler's articles appeared in The New Yorker, CBS publicized a 49-page, point-by-point counterattack. Adler's charges, CBS wrote to New Yorker editor William Shawn, were "plainly false, gross misrepresentations and distortions of the record." A few weeks later, the editor-in-chief of Time...
The family also unwittingly became embroiled in a New York scandal during the mid-1970s. Loews had bought a $40 million stake in the Franklin National Bank, which was sold to Michele Sindona, an Italian financier. When the bank later failed, Sindona was convicted of looting its assets, and Loews...