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...built Government Center and the new Boston City Hall, laid out the plans for Quincy Market and extensive developments along Boston's waterfront, spurred numerous private developments in downtown Boston, and constructed thousands of low-and moderate-income housing units in urban renewal areas that covered 25 per cent of the entire city...
...University's financial officers anticipate that response; although they say they try desperately each year to avoid tuition hikes by cutting corners wherever possible, they admit that tuition is the most malleable sector of the budget. So when the Faculty's energy costs jump more than 50 per cent, as they did last year, or when inflation pushes up the cost of lab equipment, administrators know they can--however reluctantly--mark up the bill for a Harvard education. And inflation has left little room for any future cost-cutting budget tinkering. As Melissa D. Gerrity, assistant dean of the Faculty...
Deploring the statistic that women still only make 59 cents for every dollar earned by men, Snyder cites 9 to 5's year-long (April 1979-April 1980) action against the First National Bank of Boston as exemplifying the group's hopes for what it can accomplish. The organization won a 10-per-cent pay increase for non-managerial employees, the implementation of job-posting for vacant positions, and the institution of promotion opportunities for women...
Turning to another aspect of a worker's compensation--her pension--Snyder says the fact that 75 per cent of the women workers in the United States retire without a pension must be rectified. She notes that as women turn 40, they are phased out or fired, leaving them without retirement benefits. And the typical pension system, basing benefits on at least ten years of continuous employment, works against a woman who may have to take five years off in the middle of her career to raise children. "It's like starting all over again," Snyder objects...
Cambridge block grants would also be severely curtailed, Hixson said. Neighborhoods in which the mean income is 80 per cent of Boston's means are eligible for such grants. In 1979 6 of Cambridge's 13 neighborhoods received them...