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Many people cite the mixture of people who livein the area as the key to the neighborhood'sappeal. Working-class people, professors,students, and senior citizens all reside in thesmall area of century-old, walk-up homes...
...They cite John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis and the Social Security compromise during Reagan's first term as success stories. Horror stories are more common, and include Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Carter's aborted arms control initiative in 1977 and his handling of the report of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
...their preface, Neustadt and May acknowledge that many of the failures they cite occurred in the Carter years...
While it is still too early to measure the success of the corporate war against drugs, some companies can already cite impressive results. Commonwealth Edison, a Chicago-based electric utility, started an antidrug education and rehabilitation program in 1982, offering treatment to users who came forward and threatening to fire those caught with drugs at work. The company also gives urine tests to job applicants. Since the program started, absenteeism is down 25%, and medical claims, which had been rising steadily at an average rate of 23% annually, rose only 6% last year. Moreover, the company had fewer...
Market analysts cite Cambridge's accessibility to the Red Line, its close proximity to downtown Boston, and its two major universities as reasons prospective buyers like to shop for homes in this city of 95,000. Others also argue that the city's policy of rent control artificially inflates the cost of living in Cambridge, factors making this city both attractive and very expensive to live...