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...often has your proctor sought you out?" and rated amount and quality of help their advisers provided in clarifying their career goals. Susan W. Lewis, associate dean of freshmen, will pore over the stacks of forms, synopsize the comments for each proctor, and analyze the results. The 94-per-cent response will give the FDO its most scientific indication of its performance this year...
...Vickery says, federal money could provide enough of a boost to keep a diverse population in the city. "We have to start using more subsidies, we have to start financing housing, using whatever leverage we can get," he contends. Federal loans come at prices as low as 3 per cent for those below the poverty line...
...some day-- a some day city planners foresee within 15 years--commerce will return to these barrens. Cambridge politicians speak almost reverently of The Boom, the citywide economic miracle that will end fiscal trial and muffle social discontent. They cite statistics--a 60 per-cent increase in the tax base, 40,000 new jobs. Their phrases include "irresistible momentum" and "unprecedented growth." David Vickery, the city's chief planner, says, "If we went away and did nothing, the market would still operate to expand industry in Cambridge...
...asset to a lot of companies," Vickery says, adding that other corporations' executives also teach. And the kind of business that research universities lure--high technology, research and development--are the growth industries of the next 25 years. The state's High Technology Council predicts 70 per cent of new jobs created in Massachusetts in the '80s will be tied to high technology. With inflation making it cheaper to expand into previously developed areas, and with the advantages of urban production during fuel shortages, all the ingredients for a boom are there...
...Sullivan and Danehy probably comprise a political minority, at least on the Alewife issue. Vickery argues that even at Arthur D. Little, a renowned consulting firm headquartered on Route 2 in Cambridge, 49 per cent of the work force does not hold a college diploma. "I know there's the argument of high tech versus traditional industrial uses," he says, but adds that "every business has secretaries and technicians and programmers and janitors...