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...project was badly hurt, Harvard Square developers and brokers argue, by a six-year battle with local residents over the size and scope of the building. The project did not break ground until early 1990. By then the recession had set in, and the Massachusetts Miracle was a distant memory...
Though Appiah said that he did not closelyfollow race issues on campus last spring, even asa distant observer he could see that "it would bea good idea to have some central place" to discussrace relations issues...
...project was badly hurt, Harvard Square developers and brokers argue, by a six-year battle with local residents over the size and scope of the building. The project did not break ground until early 1990. By then the recession had set in, and the Massachusetts Miracle was a distant memory...
...What + the corporation insists is a drive to banish outmoded practices that have made its factories the least efficient in the auto industry is perceived by the union as an effort to eliminate jobs. Dave Kimmel, president of UAW Local 1714, said his members received support from workers at distant plants whose weekly incomes are dropping from $700 to $200 a week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn nearly depleted, GM had been losing between $1 million...
...growing numbers, financially desperate communities are making what seem like pacts with the devilish, opening their arms to garbage, toxic waste and nuclear refuse from distant states. Such trade-offs of trash for jobs seem certain to increase in number, given the growing crackdown by states on local landfills, impending EPA standards for construction of dumps and the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting trash tariffs to discourage out-of-state dumping...