Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theater groups, the square has two indoor theaters, three restaurants, a cosmopolitan food fair, an exhibition hall and an outdoor ice-or roller-skating rink. From the eastern end of the square, zigzagging tiers of steps lead through a sylvan setting to the government office building, which has rooftop pools and waterfalls tumbling over large picture windows. The building's 127,000 sq. ft. of open office space (for only 900 workers) is separated according to function by low dividers and jungles of greenery...
...illusion succeeded. Between 1884 and 1929, there was not one vacancy in the monumentally ostentatious building. It had inlaid marble floors, a rooftop promenade with gazebos, an English baronial dining hall and a uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
...world all right. So much ballyhoo about the Bhutto hanging. The Pakistani judiciary established his involvement, so why all this rooftop show for Bhutto? Anyone who will deprive another of his life forfeits the right to live...
...telephone pole into the house and attach it to the back of the TV set, much as the Bell System installs a new phone. For a monthly fee averaging $7, the viewer can watch up to 36 channels, vs. a maximum of twelve on a set wired to a rooftop antenna. The cable brings in sharp, clear pictures and often enables a viewer to pick up out-of-the-area stations that may show on, say, Wednesday night a movie he missed on the local outlets on Tuesday...
Nearly 90% of all sales are for conventional thermal devices that use the sun's rays to heat rooftop water panels, which in turn heat swimming pools and home water systems. But the exciting side of the industry that is attracting the larger companies is photovoltaics?the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity. The theory is simple. A wafer-thin, 3-in. to 4-in. plate or "cell' that is sliced from a chemically treated silicon crystal will give off direct-current electricity when exposed to light. The amount that comes from each cell is minute, but many cells...