FRANK GEHRY designed his first fish lamp in 1983, when Formica sought uses for its laminate, ColorCore.
Back when I had my first child, there were plenty of professional advice givers voicing their thoughts on how to care for an infant and raise a child: First published in 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock's baby-raising bible, Baby and Childcare, issued clear, frank advice designed to put new mothers at ease, and reinforce the idea that they knew more than they thought they knew.
AB: That was what Dodd-Frank is designed to do.
Dodd-Frank was designed, in essence, to check the pre-crisis excesses that ultimately required the government to bail out the largest banks.
Todd J. Zywicki, a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, says that credit is the lifeblood of the economy, and that Dodd-Frank was designed to decrease access to credit.
The Frank-Matcham-designed Palladium opened on Boxing Day 1910 and has played host to all the greats of variety, from Houdini to Laurel and Hardy, Gracie Fields, the Crazy Gang, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Howerd and on.
After a brief scare following the near-collapse of the economy in 2008 and 2009, the banks regrouped and leaned on Congress to water down the Dodd-Frank legislation designed to prevent another such collapse; now, their lobbyists are writing the rule of the Dodd-Frank legislation, gutting its most significant achievements.
It is, to be frank, quite dinky: designed for one, and filled with all her things.
