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...still there (temperatures last week were in the 80s), but not the fun. So rapidly has the seven-mile-long island degenerated that it can be fairly described as a seedy backwater of debt-ridden hotels, gaudy condominiums and decaying apartments. It has a permanent population so old (median age: 68) that lifeguards spend more time assisting heart-attack victims on the sand than pulling foundering swimmers out of the surf...
...there is ample bad news, too. Working women are still disproportionately herded into so-called pink-collar jobs-teaching, clerical and retail sales work. The median salary for American women last year was only 60% that of American men. Indeed, 94.7% of those earning $15,000 or more in the U.S. are male. Women still do not get equal pay for equal work: Female high school teachers earn only 81% as much as their male peers, and female scientists receive 76% as much. Of the 301 people appointed to major jobs by President Carter, only 13% are women. There...
...Cambridge City Council, with the aid of a home-rule petition in the state legislature, adopted a strict rent control ordinance in 1971. Median household rents skyrocketed by 70 per cent during the '60s, and the ever accelerating stream of students and young professionals moving into Cambridge indicated there was little chance of future relief. The city's rules exempted only owner-occupied dwellings with less than four rental units, federal- and state-subsidized housing, and all housing built after 1968. What further galls rent control opponents is that the city's rent control board--which grants rent increases...
...population of 660,000 occupies an area of land with little room for development. As the middle and upper classes grew, the suburbs became the only place to move. Boston is a white working class community where people consider themselves members of a neighborhood, not of a city. The median income is $9000 in an area which is 10 per cent more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers who fought so tenaciously and blindly defending Southie High (a 1901 structure...
Professors and administrators at the Business School said yesterday that median starting salaries for Harvard MBAs may rise as competition to get into the school mounts and the cumulative work experience of the business students increases...