Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clears the courts. These cities are relatively fortunate; other cities are virtually desperate. Under state laws, both Omaha and Detroit are already taxing to the limit of their authority and could not pass tax increases even if they wanted to. Sooner or later, says former Pittsburgh City Councilman J. Craig Kuhn, "all cities face bankruptcy, unless some new patterns of municipal financing evolve...
...class families to the suburbs and the concomitant growth of inner city slums. Revenue from real estate taxes is further reduced by the tax-exempt status of government and other institutional holdings. In Detroit, 30% of developed land is lost to federal and state office buildings, schools and hospitals. Pittsburgh took 85 acres off its tax rolls with the construction of Three Rivers Stadium...
...Customers enter the lobby and go up to television screens that show only the faces of tellers, who are safely locked away on the second floor. All transactions are conducted through an intercom and pneumatic tubes. One unit with tube attachments costs from $11,000 to $23,000. Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank is installing an expensive computer-controlled alarm network that connects all its branches with the central office and transmits different signals for a burglary or a holdup. Some bankers who want to stay open at night but are worried about robberies after dark get around the threat...
...payroll paring at every level. Liaison men, coordinators and other functionaries with fuzzily defined duties proved to be particularly vulnerable. Layers of superfluous executives, built up over the euphoric years, were fired or pushed into early retirement. As part of one hold-down, the assistant controller of a Pittsburgh steel company daringly recommended that his job be consolidated with that of his boss. It was -but the assistant got the ax. Adding irony to his agony, he was then asked by the controller for a final evaluation of the staff. "Well," he replied, "I'll start by telling...
...Jonathan M. Rosenberg of Eliot House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert E. Shrock of Winthrop House and Lexington; Jonathan B. Stolzenberg of Dudley House and West Hartford, Conn.; David J. Taylor of Leverett House and New York; and William S. Zwicker of Lowell House and Island Park, New York...