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...scope, nearly everything about Television City has an odd retro quality. The project seems inspired by a Believe It or Not sensibility, the equation of freakish size and glamour that plays well these days only in Las Vegas. Sure, sipping a martini at sunset 150 stories up would be swell--once or twice. But Trump, a man entranced by superlatives, seems not to realize that few people any longer share his obsession with building a still taller tallest skyscraper...
Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
WEST GERMANY. Giersch called 1985, when the economy expanded by 2.3%, a disappointing year. But growth in 1986 is expected to swell to 3%, largely on the basis of a doubling of private consumption, from 1.5% to 3%. Consumers will get the first of two planned tax cuts, and wages are expected to rise by around 4% this year. Giersch expects labor leaders to call for larger increases in 1986. Since an election is coming next year, he said, the government will not be in a mood to resist. Inflation, currently 1.8%, is expected...
...parents. "We have an unexpressed wish that our parents will someday acknowledge the injustices done us," notes University of Pittsburgh elder-law professor Larry Frolik. "Someday Mom will understand that I'm as smart as my rich older brother or will finally admit, 'Honey, your husband's really a swell...
Summers said, however, that expanded undergraduate housing in Allston did not mean the College was trying to swell its student ranks...