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...stirring symbols of progress and prosperity. Yet in many cities the glass-and-steel monuments have now come to represent wretched excess. During the past five years, U.S. developers have constructed a breathtaking surplus of office towers, condominium complexes and hotels. In Los Angeles, a rusting, 17-story framework of steel girders on Wilshire Boulevard has stood idle for three years because of collapsed condo prices. Denver's tallest building, the 56-story Republic Plaza office tower, is only half rented despite such amenities as a concierge, an Italian-marble lobby, a car wash and computerized climate control. Florida...
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney promised that any agreement reached with the U.S. would be made within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and thus would not have an adverse effect on Canada's other trading partners. Later, Nakasone, speaking in both French and English before the Canadian Parliament, decried what he saw as a rising tide of protectionism. Likening international free trade to "a fragile porcelain doll," the Prime Minister went so far as to concede that Japan should be more open to imports. Officials of both countries later revealed that Tokyo had agreed...
...Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky told The Crimson that professors aren’t used to a framework where grades are much lower. “I don’t see how they could much go down,” he said. “We are not in the business of giving...
...North Allston Strategic Framework for Planning—a document released earlier this year which outlines both the University’s and the community’s priorities for a new campus—made only brief mention of undergraduate housing, citing the work of Harvard’s Allston Life Task Force...
...reason you don’t see much of a consensus is that people don’t have a clear framework through which to view it,” he said...