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...about jobs. Are there federal facilities which can be located there? Can we train people for employment in construction? Can we induce industries which serve Government or which sell overseas and could assemble here to build plants on the East River waterfront? Since the city and state can offer low-cost financing for buildings and equipment, tax incentives, low-cost power and other benefits, a suggestion from Washington might be all that's needed to interest some companies. And what a heartwarming thing it would be if industrial and housing development took place simultaneously." Whatever the merits of Robbins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Let's Go, South Bronx! | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...evolutionary terms, sex is the central game in life, and the aim of all players is to get as many genes as possible into the next generation, at the lowest cost. Some of the best low-cost players are female fish, which deposit their unfertilized eggs in front of a chosen male. Then, while he is inseminating the eggs, they flee, leaving the poor male to protect his genetic investment by nurturing the young himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sociobiology and Sex | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Indexing the price of oil would ensure a supply of low-cost energy for the future, he added...

Author: By William B. Trautman, | Title: OPEC Director Says Price of Oil May Rise To Keep Pace With the High Inflation Rate | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...cops should take advantage of the Fuzzbusters and install low-cost radar transmitters on the power poles alongside the highways every few miles. The speeders would think they were in a continuous trap and drive 55 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...treaties, which possibly interested 5% of the readers. But the general reader now misses valuable documentation that he might be happy to read. The Times merely excerpted Saul Bellow's Nobel acceptance speech. It played as the day's most important story the Supreme Court decision on low-cost housing in the suburbs. The story was well reported and analyzed by Lesley Oelsner, but the Times printed not one full sentence from either the majority or minority court opinions. It did not even excerpt Theodore Sorensen's statement withdrawing from his CIA appointment. The New Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: America's Two Best Newspapers | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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