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“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”

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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

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