Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy necessary -- the entire record could have been made public at the close of the investigation. Then there would have been no Ollie -- only Colonel North, the slightly disreputable, if not discredited, "switching point" (Poindexter's phrase) of the political scandal of the decade...
Poindexter was not alone in forgetting the 1985 finding. Last winter Reagan told the Tower commission that he had approved the initial Hawk shipment before the fact. The President later told the board members that he had had no prior awareness of the transaction. Finally, he wrote a note to the Tower board saying, "The simple truth is I don't remember -- period." After Poindexter's disclosure last week, the President still said he does not remember signing the finding...
Domino's Pizza, the company that cooked up a $2 billion fast-food dynasty by peddling Italian fare, is again looking to Italy for inspiration. Domino's announced last week that as part of its new headquarters complex near Ann Arbor, Mich., it plans to erect a 30-story tower that will lean to the east at a 15 degree angle, much like the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...project is part of an effort to make the complex a tourist attraction. Under construction is a copper-roofed half-mile-long building in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright that will house executive offices. The tower will contain a 450-room hotel. Architect Gunnar Birkerts admits that he is prepared for "leaning tower of pizza" jokes...
...thrown off course by thunderstorms, landed at the wrong airport in Kentucky. The pilots set down smoothly at Frankfort's airport, but they thought they were landing at Lexington, where the runways have a similar layout. The event occurred just after midnight, a time when neither airport's control tower is manned...