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...inverted cone, the rough concrete pillars, the swooping concrete shell. The details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel trusses, a wing- like cantilever from which the factory's glass walls hang. It is one of the more elegant postwar industrial buildings. St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo is a kind of Gothic abstraction, two enormous concrete shells sandwiched together and suspended from above, covered in an acre of stainless...
...freezing and windy in Washington last week, but that did not stop hundreds of LTV retirees from rallying at the Capitol. They were demonstrating to save their medical- and life-insurance benefits, which the steel and defense company canceled when it went into bankruptcy proceedings last July. Although the benefits were restored by the bankruptcy court and Congress passed a measure last October that extended the benefits, that protection expires on May 15, and the retirees are lobbying the lawmakers to give them permanent insurance coverage. Congress is considering legislation that would require all bankrupt firms to get court approval...
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...like Ivan Boesky have let greed run wild, but most business people got down to work and reaffirmed that the honorable creation of wealth is at the heart of a healthy democracy. The scent of the buck is kindling creativity again even in the depressed farm belt and idled steel valleys. And Reagan's sermon that trade must be free the world over will continue to resonate even as new pressures build for protection...
This unsettling phenomenon is by no means unique to the auto industry. It is occurring more and more as the U.S. persuades foreign countries to accept import limits on textiles, machine tools, sugar, meat and carbon steel, among other items. As pressure for more trade legislation builds this year in Congress, a growing number of economists and legislators have concluded that there must be a better way to run a quota system...