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...Cambridge statistics are accurate in terms of numbers of crimes for 1983, said Ray Santilli, a civilian police planner for the city, But the population figure, is distorted by' the number of students living in Cambridge and workers who fill the city during the day he added...
...Soviets have a number of reasons for opposing Star Wars. They are fearful of American technological prowess and they are prone to dote on worst-case scenarios. Reagan's dream of space-based battle stations that could zap missiles out of the sky is a Soviet military planner's nightmare. In order to counter such a U.S. capability, the Soviets would have to expand and overhaul their entire offensive arsenal and probably undertake a huge defensive buildup of their own. The mega-rubles involved would have to be diverted from the nonmilitary sectors of the economy, where Gorbachev faces...
...face and ready grin, Jacobs wears his wealth casually. He sometimes answers his own phone and regularly drives himself to work from his home in the stylish Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. He makes no claims to being a great long-range corporate planner, even to the point of refusing to keep an appointment calendar. Jacobs is a person of instinct and action. Says he: "You can't predict what I'm going to do next because there is no track, no character to it. Our big asset is our flexibility, being able...
...Budget planners are talking up such recommendations as a new attempt to slash or eliminate federal operating subsidies for mass-transit systems, enact new restrictions on Government-subsidized student loans, consolidate and reduce many federal grants to localities, and perhaps abolish the Department of Education. But they are pointedly not discussing any further slashes in programs such as food stamps and welfare that make up the so-called social safety net. Vows one planner: "There will be virtually nothing in this budget that can be construed as an attack on the poor...
...Naipaul echoes in non-fiction a point he made earlier in his novel A Bond in the River. While African development has been successful in building great monuments to itself, it has used what the west has given to it in a way that no colonial administrator or development planner eyer envisioned...