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...entryway system has its ups and downs. The rooms are more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, casual dropin visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
...some citizens contend that putting Cambridge on the frontier of environmentalism would actually be helpful to business and a boon to the city's stagnant economic situation...
Similar books, such as the upcoming press publication of Gore Vidal's recent lecture, Screening History, are a financial boon to the usually lowprofit University press...
Getting the area clean, he adds, would be a boon for businesses and bring money into the city. "In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, if we can get Harvard and Central Square clean at all times Whatsoever, the benefits would be worth it," he says...
Timely delivery of the magazine to newsstands is naturally a boon to sales. Consumer marketing director David Gitow reports that each outlet displaying TIME for that extra day typically sells 20% more copies weekly. In 1991 swift delivery, coupled with a voracious public appetite for news, meant a 13% rise in newsstand sales over the prior year. During the winter months, when the gulf war was in full swing, sales skyrocketed 67% higher than the comparable period in 1990. That surge contributed to our strong overall circulation of 4.16 million...