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...renewed use of traditional architectural styles is a done deed, praised and damned but now mainly accommodated. A more significant traditionalist trend, however, may be the revival of the belief in appropriately expressive building types. A courthouse should not look like a Pizza Hut; a parking garage and a theater ought to be distinguishable...
...investments. Still, more than 2,000 foreign businesses had put some money into China by the end of 1984. Most were owned by the overseas Chinese, who have prospered throughout Asia, but the total includes 70 U.S., 67 Japanese and 42 British, West German or French companies. A burgeoning trend is toward ventures jointly owned by Chinese state enterprises and foreign firms; 687 were registered in the first half of 1985 alone, or almost as many as in all of 1984. Peking has even allowed 94 factories wholly owned by foreigners to be built. They include 3M China...
...statistical aberration. Concludes John Enders, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a Virginia research and consulting group: "It's a kind of fluke, a confluence of a lot of things. There isn't any single thing one can point to and say, 'Ah yes, here's a new trend...
...were also resonant of "how Wall Street and capitalism were changing." In fact, the author's chronicle of strife at Lehman Brothers is a good deal more persuasive than his tentative efforts to link an ugly power struggle to a supposed national preoccupation with quick results and a runaway trend toward bigness. The narrative is slow in starting, repetitive, and too often dotted with clichés and awkward syntax. It sorely lacks a detailed explanation of Lehman's management structure, and it is overburdened with irrelevant details such as whose dog was vomiting while key negotiations were under way. Still...
...been practicing for all of eight months. "The best part is the end result, seeing your picture," she says. Schnarre is the youngest winner ever. "She just happens to be tall enough and mature enough," explains Modeling Boss Ford. "At least I certainly hope it's not a trend." Does that mean diamonds and furs and modeling contracts just might be too much for some 14-year-olds...