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...median household income. The housing stock has deteriorated badly, and rent control, whatever its virtues, does not encourage renovation. Next year's municipal budget deficit is estimated at $40 million. Yet there are King and Flynn: with both men and their constituencies earnestly committed to solving those problems, happier days may be here again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Wins by a Landslide | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...only go so far. They say that this year's council may have to sacrifice some of its own ambitious goals just to guarantee that tangible benefits are garnered and visible to undergraduates. With greater satisfaction outside the chambers of a student government perceived as a way toward a happier--and more efficient group of council members, many will also be looking in next year's council for leaders who can provide the kind of decisive direction that, at times, was noticeably lacking this spring. Without it, the council may never be able to attract any more than a small...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: High Hopes and Birth Pains | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...have low opinions of themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless, cut off from those who lead richer, happier or just plain calmer lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Violence | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Inspiration is abundant (though not always cheap) at the Thomas More book shop in Holyoke Center which features religious works But if your tastes are more wanton you'll be happier in the basement of 99 Mt Auburn where the Million Year Picnic stacks show off superheroes not the supernatural comic books and the their lore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking for Mr. Goodbook | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...women down to uninteresting mechanical jobs, proving once again that men are smarter than machines. The typist in modern folklore is often given a melancholy identity, like the typist in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, who takes her lover as wearily as she lights her stove. On a happier side, Rose Fritz, the national speed-typing champion from 1906 to 1909, never lost to a man, and Stella Willins, the 1926 world's amateur champion, once typed 264 words in one minute, repeating a memorized sentence. The report that the sentence was "How I loathe this work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Last Page in the Typewriter | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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