Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderately priced dinner or a good Sunday brunch. The Yenching (1326 Mass. Ave.) is perhaps the Square's most centrally located Chinese joint, but because it doesn't take credit cards and doesn't have the heavy drinking atmosphere of the Kong, it doesn't seem to attract much of a Harvard crowd. Yet the food is good, the beer is easy to get, and the prices aren...
...have since flocked to real estate, and are currently constructing developments ranging from housing to shopping centers. Says Ali Ebrahimi, 43, whose company, Ersa Grae, has built five subdivisions in Houston and two more in Nashville: "What I have been able to do with very little money is to attract the confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work. In the U.S., if you have a good idea, people will support you." Ebrahimi, who received a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland in 1966, once ran a manufactured- housing concern...
...adviser to India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, "that the underdeveloped countries, which have the greatest need for scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals, are in fact losing many of their best-educated young men to the developed countries." Even among unskilled workers, the U.S. tends to attract the most enterprising -- those who are adventurous enough to quit their homes and strike out for new opportunities in America...
Some Argentines even reacted to the financial crisis with humor. The owners of one Buenos Aires restaurant, La Nonna Inmaculata, papered its walls with old pesos. Manager Jose de la Iglesia thinks the new decor will attract a nostalgic crowd...
...market will grow to $3 billion a year by 1990, when the U.S. may have as many as 1,600 smart buildings. Already Cushman's Dallas-based property manager, Jay Dee Allen, says that fully half his inquiries concern space in smart buildings. "Smart technology makes it easier to attract tenants," says Larry Guilmette, manager of Bronson and Hutensky, a co-developer of Hartford's CityPlace. "The fact that you can sell some sizzle gives you a higher profile." It doesn't take a smart building to figure that...