Word: temperedness
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> City building projects are almost at a standstill as soaring costs far outstrip targeted estimates. Rising costs have forced San Francisco to postpone indefinitely construction of an 18,000-seat sports arena. The Washington, D.C., rapid-transit system, budgeted at $2.5 billion five years ago, will cost at least $4.5...
Too High. Other automakers are also putting on the brakes. The industry's supply of unsold cars last week stood at 69 days, a record tempered only technically by the fact that the figure is based on current small daily volume and could shrink rapidly if the pace picks...
Foreign observers believe that the new team of Costa Gomes and Gonçalves will be a workable one. A career officer, Costa Gomes earned his stars in the African theater where, like Spínola, he came to oppose Portugal's colonial wars. When Spínola brought...
Yasser Arafat, 44, still wears the green fatigues, desert boots and bullet-studded pistol belt of an underground fighter. But the founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring...
THERE WAS SOMETHING about the concert that missed as a whole and whether it was Reed's fault or his band's is pure speculation. The band was a gifted and tempered one and contrasted strongly to the gritty, nerve-grating sound of the Velvets. But in retrospect, that type...