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...caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted to the helicopter in the arms of troopers hanging from horse-collar slings. The women were winched into the chopper on stretchers...
...most widespread surplus plagues the office-building market: more than 16% of total space is empty, compared with 3.5% in 1980. The vacancy rate continues to rise, in part because the building of offices is running 50% ahead of the growth in white-collar employment. Among the first cities to be hit by the glut were Denver and Houston, where demand for office space collapsed because of the downturn in the oil and gas industry. Hapless developers wound up with rows of "see-through buildings," thus named because they have so few occupants and interior fixtures. The developers of Houston...
...starting line may have been a moment when Springsteen opened Joe Klein's luminous 1980 biography of Woody Guthrie. Nebraska, the solo album he released in 1982, has direct roots in Guthrie tunes like Pretty Boy Floyd, just as Springsteen's current populism has models in the blue-collar activism of the 1930s...
...widespread publicity surprised Weitzman, too. “I guess it must be a man-bites-dog story. It’s kind of a blue collar situation with a Harvard professor,” he said. “I think that accounts for the interest...
Some of the accomplishments he points to are the development of affordable housing, the move from blue-collar to high-tech industry in Cambridge, and the appointment of guidance counselors in the Cambridge Public Schools...