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...home of Lechmere's Point, where the British landed to begin the march to Lexington and Concord, parts of East Cambridge have become industrial wastelands, leading one city official to compare the area to "an underutilized warehouse." After an industrial peak in the early 1900s, many large manufacturers left East Cambridge, taking jobs and other residents with them...
...lost more than $3 billion between 1978 and 1982 and has slurped up $4.6 billion of government handouts since 1975. Things are now looking brighter, since BL has just finished its best year in a decade. Industry experts estimate that the company will have cut its losses from a peak of $803 million in 1980 to $77 million for the first half...
...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...
...find the younger people--35 to 45--who right now are extremely good...but who have not reached their peak," says Brody. "You look around the field and you see that the really interesting work is being done by people like this," he adds...
...Harvard policy of hiring the best in the world often means getting big-name stars, which Brody says is wrong-headed: "The problem with hiring a best shot is that their peak sometimes turns out to be a plateau...