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...their 1978 manifesto The North Will Rise Again, Jeremy Rifkin and Randy Barber estimated that "over $200 billion in pension-fund capital comes from the combined deferred savings of 19 million union members and the public employee funds of the 16 states that make up the northeast/midwest corridor." All pension-fund portfolios could total $1.3 trillion by the late 1980s, controlling half the securities of U.S. industry, according to recent calculations in Fortune magazine...
...Tuesday evening, no one was more dumbfounded by Kennedy's triumph than his own top advisers. "What the hell is going on?" asked Campaign Manager Stephen Smith as he encountered Strategist Edward Martin in a corridor of the Halloran House, the Senator's headquarters hotel in New York City. Replied Martin, with a grin: "How the hell do I know?" The following day, Jimmy Carter asked the same question while speaking at a fund-raising dinner in Washington for Democratic congressional candidates. Said he: "I am sure that a lot of you are wondering what happened...
Early morning winds sent the gas floating down a narrow, predominantly industrial corridor and out towards Boston Harbor, but a mid-afternoon wind shift forced the evacuation of several thousand from the Cross St. section of Somerville...
That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when...
...that matter, before paths were cleared through jungles and up mountains, could a seafaring man more than sense the islands' dazzling diversity of terrain or the richness of their flora and fauna. Since Columbus first gazed on what was to be for three centuries the main corridor for settlement of the New World, the islands have accumulated an asset more precious than all the gold that was not there: people, of almost every ethnic origin, melded into distinct and assertively individual societies...