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...trouble. Declining productivity, recalcitrant inflation and the explosion of Government spending have so shackled U.S. business that growth will be sluggish well into the future. Moreover, the time left to reverse that course is growing short. Warned Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, an economic consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass.: "The federal budget has tremendous upward momentum. Increases in spending can't go on at the rate of the past ten years, or the private sector won't be able to function any more." Manhattan Economic Consultant Alan Greenspan, who is also a member of Reagan...
...Lexington woman last week became the first beneficiary of a new federal loan program which helps parents finance their children's college educations with tuition-based loans...
...Pastreich may be Lexington's first professional female firefighter, but she downplays the difficulties of her job and emphasizes that she is not a feminist...
...days later, on November 9, she started work at the department in Lexington, where she logs two ten-hour days and two 14-hour nights every eight days. She answers both fire and ambulance calls, and sometimes manages to sleep in bunkrooms at the station. ("There really is a brass pole-the bell rings and you jump up and find your shoes, if it's the ambulance, or slide down in socks and get into big boots, if it's the truck...
...been to a house fire--only brush fires, which are common in Lexington's fields and light woods--and she says she has yet to "prove herself...