Word: schaumburg
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What drew you to Away We Go? Val Matchus, SCHAUMBURG...
...look for ways to repair the damage from five decades of outward, rather than upward, expansion. There are scores of so-called edge cities that have popped up near urban centers, suburbs on steroids that often grew around a giant mall - like King of Prussia, Pa. (outside Philadelphia), and Schaumburg, Ill. (Chicago). "If Tysons can be retrofitted, then there's great hope for a lot of others," says June Williamson, an associate professor of architecture at the City College of New York and a co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia...
...argued against Shakespeare's reputation as history's pre-eminent playwright. Renaissance dramatists Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene were good and even great, but definitely not as great as Shakespeare. My enjoyment of Shakespeare's language, wit and universality has grown steadily over the past 50 years. Clorinda Schaumburg Tübingen, Germany The Price of Victory? I broke down while reading "One morning in Haditha" [March 27], the story of the Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. Marines. Military excesses should never be covered up and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The lives...
...would shore up its profit margins once sales of the Razr start to slow. At the end of the meeting, an exasperated Zander started venting to an attendee about the evils of short-term thinking on Wall Street. "I work for shareholders," he said in an interview in his Schaumburg, Ill., office three weeks later. "But, that said, are you a long-term shareholder or a short-term shareholder? There seems to be more and more of a focus on short-term results, which makes investing for the longer term that much harder...
...cluster of modest glass-fronted offices. His isn't even the largest, and his secretary gets the view. Ask Motorola executives about their CEO, and they are almost as likely to tease him--about his taste for what he calls cooked sushi or his complaints about the commute to Schaumburg--as praise...