I think he is succumbing to the allure of prospective office, what the late Frank Johnson Simon Hoggartt's only equal in the ranks of recent parliamentary sketchwriters) once called "the black stocking-tops of power".
Next to it is a column footing from which structural steel will begin to rise in the next year; that is, if all the financing falls into place for a project that will cost at least $1.3 billion and has no large prospective office tenants yet.
Equity Office, an affiliate of the Blackstone Group and the new owner of the upper 12 floors of the 15-story building at 229 West 43rd Street, imagines that prospective office occupants will have a hard time getting the image out of their minds.
"We believe if we deliver ten times better user experience, it should sufficiently differentiate 42Floors against alternatives well, especially in the eyes of prospective office managers," notes Paul Hsiao, a partner at NEA who is now a part of 42Floors' board.
Prospective office renters in Los Angeles County are likely to have to dig deeper into their wallets as rents rise and empty space continues to fill up.
The prospective mix of offices, apartments, restaurants and a viewing platform in the building, to rival the London Eye, should add jobs and revenue to the area; and the station, which serves 300,000 commuters a day, has been cleaned up and attractively refurbished as part of the project.
It's now a well-learned lesson by all prospective candidates for office that you should never let 'em see you sweat, as Nixon did on television.
Another prospective use: helping office workers prepare for the dangers of doors, cabinets, chairs, pencils and waste bins before they encounter the real things.
On the day of their measurements, participants completed a questionnaire from the PROMO study, a two-year prospective study of office workers [ 28– 30].
Edward McLoughlin, a Dutchess County prosecutor who is working with the state attorney general's office to keep Mr. Fentress institutionalized, said the prospective witness contacted his office in 1992.
