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> Unsure of how to hook such an architect for their modest home, the Jacobses put it to him as a challenge: could he build them a nice house for $5,000 (around $85,000 in today’s dollars)? According to Jacobs, Wright responded that he had waited for decades for someone to ask him just that question.
They say 63 percent of tech companies surveyed have already downsized or plan to downsize their office space in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is to be expected in a work-from-home situation like the ongoing pandemic. I don't see anything about the percentage of it being permanent rather than temporary.
Though you may have been alluding to more powerful movements!
You don't necessarily care that everyone is at some place, just the group you are interested in keeping up with.
the US secured 1,200 tonnes of Congolese uranium, which was stockpiled on Staten Island, US, and an additional 3,000 tonnes that was stored above ground at the mine in Shinkolobwe. But it was not enough. US Army engineers were dispatched to drain the mine, which had fallen into disuse, and bring it back into production.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese workers toiled day and night in the open pit, sending hundreds of tonnes of uranium ore to the US every month.