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...even virtual life isn't all sweetness and light. Time goes fast in The Sims, and I kept getting fired because I dawdled over breakfast and missed the carpool. Not that I minded. My gigs as lab technician and security guard paid horribly, and in these boom times I could usually find a new job the next day. I kind of miss being a military recruit, though, because I got to wear great-looking fatigues and get picked up by a jeep every morning...
Student start-up companies are contributing to a technological boom in Cambridge. City officials and professors say the area is increasingly winning a reputation as a center for high-tech industry. And Harvard and MIT, the universities at either end of town, are the principal attraction...
Resident Shannon Larkin created the petition to slow down the development that has occurred in areas like Kendall Square. Residents feel that the current business boom needs to be planned so that congestion and over-development does not become an uncontrollable problem...
...beer. Widely credited with being the architect of the most sustained growth cycle in the history of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday welcomed the record-making 107th month of robust economic health. It's not only its length, of course, that has been remarkable. The boom, marked by rising income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity - some attributed to worker "flexibility" (read longer hours), some to technological advances - absorbing much...
...That view is widespread. In their analyses of the country's economic health, economists consistently point to one aspect of the boom that's making them nervous: Consumers, buoyed by the unprecedented good times, are heading out to shop with a vengeance, at the expense, analysts say, of their savings accounts. Counterintuitive as it may seem, people tend to spend feverishly during economic upswings, entertaining thoughts of saving only when the well runs dry (which, of course, strangles fuel to an already spluttering engine). Thus is removed the cushion that could have prevented a plummeting economy from suffering a dead...