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Second only to Harvard in Cambridge property holdings and one of the largest institutions in the state, MIT is certainly an appropriate place to start building a community-wide solution to the problems of housing and homelessness in this city. MIT's investment and development of real estate--like Harvard's--have contributed strongly to the lack of low and moderate-income housing in the city, and it is only fitting that MIT be expected to play a larger role in the effort to relieve the strains of expansion and displacement...
...Education is the largest single item in state budgets," said Finn, who is currently assistant secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. He said the U.S. spends $4400 a year for each elementary student and $11,000 a year for each full-time college or university student...
...York City is the largest school system in the country with the most problems," Wilson said. "It is the biggest educational challenge...
...increased cooperation, things have not always gone smoothly. The sorest point has been the case of U.S. Commodities Broker Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland in 1983 with the largest delinquent tax bill in American . history: $48 million. In 1982 a federal judge in New York ordered a Swiss company owned by Rich to submit documents that would prove his tax delinquency. After the judge threatened to impose a $50,000-a-day fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded...
...them more like the corporate world they serve: dollar conscious, competitive, increasingly bureaucratized and less genteel. With 300 attorneys, Cadwalader would have been counted as a giant ten years ago. Now it ranks as merely a large outfit in a field that holds megafirms of 800 plus. The largest, Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, just broke the 1,000 mark. Many of the behemoths are run by nonattorney managers who operate like corporate chiefs, drumming up sales and plotting growth strategies. Says Richard Santagati, the onetime head of NYNEX who now oversees Boston's Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett: "Everything has accelerated...