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...four-month-old effort to substantially reorganize and improve the operations of the city's rent control board is proceeding well. Cambridge officials said yesterday, adding that the campaign is making a dent in the agency's massive backlog of cases...
...December if wage increases are limited, as the government seeks, to 3.5% during 1983. That will be tough, said Giersch, since militant trade unions are already demanding salary hikes of about 7.5%. The government's recent efforts to stimulate the housing industry are not expected to make any dent in unemployment, now at 7.8% of the work force. Joblessness is likely to grow to 9.5% by the end of next year, said Giersch...
...invasion of Japanese video recorders. This year alone, 550,000 (85% of total sales) were sold, an influx authorities fear could cripple France's own fledgling video recorder industry and deepen its projected $14 billion foreign trade deficit. When hefty new $65 annual licensing fees failed to dent demand, the government turned to obstructionism. Henceforth, decreed the French government, every Japanese recorder would have to clear a tiny ten-man customhouse in landlocked Poitiers...
...minded youths would speed nights riding the New York subways, protecting the elderly, giving directions to lost people, and excorting citizens out of potentially dangerous encounters with muggers. Occasionally, they might even catch a purse-snatcher or burglar in the act. As time passed, the Angels made no significant dent in crime rates, but they did show the almost-forgotten power of citizens who care about each other. The Angels were a modern, urban version of the Boy Scouts who helped little old ladies through subways instead of across the street...
...that makes Douglas Adams' new book all the more welcome. Life, the Universe and Everything (Harmony; $9.95) is like nothing ever published before except, perhaps, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also written by Douglas Adams. Once again the protagonist is a reluctant wanderer named Arthur Dent; once again his intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams...