Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream in jeopardy. Two years ago, for $265,000, the novice developer had bought an incomparable old factory building for conversion into 21 condominium apartments and several offices. The 19th century structure, designated a historical landmark because it has one of the oldest cast-iron facades in the Northeast, commands spectacular views of Boston. Every unit in the planned conversion was sold before Deane went to the bank for his building loan. With 10% up front from every investor in the building and all the cash he could pull together, Deane was able to swing a loan of $1.6 million...
...sludge that university labs were sending their way. Closed it down, that is, to everybody but South Carolina and its neighboring states. Then the word floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried to get them to change their minds. "We're not even third cousins anymore," came the curt reply...
...Northeast Personal and Business Computer Show drew well over a hundred computer firms, exhibiting products that ranged from "space-war" games to "glitch detectors" (computer program troubleshooters), and from musical synthesizers to mobile robots...
Smaller cities, like Rochester (population 300,000 or so), fall uncomfortably between--they have too many high school students and alumni to ignore, but often too few to warrant extensive ministrations from Cambridge. "It's unclear whether we're considered part of the big Northeast area or the boondocks--I guess we're the middling boonies," says Harry P. Trueheart III '66, chairman of the schools and scholarships committee of the Rochester Harvard Club...
...unclear whether we're considered part of the big Northeast area or the boondocks-I guess we're in the middling boonies." --Harry P. Trueheart...