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A New ERA, The Decline of Everyone, Rethinking McDonald's, and Other Matters. Standing Tall in a Soft Market
By DANIEL SELIGMAN REPORTER ASSOCIATE Edward Prewitt

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Lease wars are being waged at 20th and L Streets, N.W., the latest battleground for developers trying to fill their marble and glass office palaces . . . At 2021 L Street, developers . . . offered . . . the National Football League Players Association, a new tenant in the building, . . . money to install showers and lockers. In addition, the building's owner agreed to raise the ceiling in the office of the association's executive director, six-foot-five Gene Upshaw, the former all-pro guard for the Los Angeles Raiders. ''With his cowboy boots, he was even taller,'' said B. J. Purdum, leasing agent . . . -- From an article in the Washington Post.