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Meanwhile, all the Northeast, including Cambridge, suffered as industry went South in search of cheap, unorganized labor. The exodus to the suburbs also shrunk Cambridge from a population peak of nearly 130,000 to about 100,000. But Cambridge fared better than many other cities; MIT and Harvard attracted a number of electronics, engineering and research and development firms to help ease the sudden loss of jobs...
While the Betty Freidans and Gloria Steinems stole the limelight and the headlines during the peak of the women's movement, these women watched from the sidelines, wondering if Women's Lib would ever have any relevance to them. But now they are speaking out. And they think what they have to say could greatly affect American society...
...handle the 16 lanes of the bridge's two Delaware-side toll plazas, he is much too busy raking in the cash. Sixty cents a car, $1.50 a bus, $2.50 for a big five-axle tractor trailer. So many tolls in swift, five-second transactions that on a peak day the bridge can bring...
Tiltmeters on the mountain's north rim were showing a slight but growing deformation similar-but on a much smaller scale-to the bulge on the peak's north face before the May explosion. Scientists were not sure if it was caused by a swelling on the rim or the settling of material on the floor of the crater. Inside the crater a lava dome has been forming. It glows red as molten rock roils underneath its hardened crust. The questions: Will it be able to cap the volcano? Or will pent-up gases blast through again...
Last spring, when the Consumer Price Index was leaping from peak to peak like a bee-stung mountain goat, economists, among others, looked to food prices for a little consolation. People at check-out counters may find it hard to believe, but the cost of food was then going up more slowly than the Consumer Price Index. In the first half of the year, when inflation briefly topped 18%, food prices grew at an annual rate of only...