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...part because the building of offices is running 50% ahead of the growth in white-collar employment. Among the first cities to be hit by the glut were Denver and Houston, where demand for office space collapsed because of the downturn in the oil and gas industry. Hapless developers wound up with rows of "see-through buildings," thus named because they have so few occupants and interior fixtures. The developers of Houston's 34-story Phoenix Tower, who were unable to find any major tenants for the building, simply mothballed the structure to wait for better times...
...more careful to expunge his or her Jewishness than Jews who were in the public eye," declares Charles E. Silberman in this examination of the past, present and potential futures of American Jews--one of the most thorough journalistic surveys of American Jewish life ever published. Actors who wound up in Hollywood got camouflage names whether they wanted them or not. While pioneer moviemakers like Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and Adolph Zukor retained Jewish-sounding names, they were "determined to avoid any hint of Jewishness in the films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously...
...Borowitz says. “We didn’t spend all that much time writing and producing a magazine…the irony of course is that spending all that time watching television is probably the best time we could have spent at Harvard because most of us wound up graduating and going out to Hollywood and writing for television...
...Post prints that a $25,000 check for the Nixon campaign fund wound up in one of the burglars' bank accounts...
...WOUND UP FOURTH IN THE INDY 500 AND STILL MADE THE COVER OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. DO YOU FIND ALL THIS ATTENTION A BIT AWKWARD...