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Harvard currently has some $640 million in debt outstanding in the form of bond issues, which have gone to pay for numerous renovation projects around campus and the $350-million Harvard-built Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) in Boston, which has run about 500 percent over budget...
...ACCIDENTAL RELEASE of poisonous gases from a Union Carbide plant in West Virginia last week, which left 40 unsuspecting people injured, may seem quite removed for most Cantabrigians. And so might a similar industrial disaster in Bhopal, India which killed 2000 and injured 200,000 more last December. In both cases, Union Carbide officials had repeatedly assured local residents that a release of toxic chemicals into their communities was highly unlikely...
...biggest fear is that Sauk Centre will become part of a kind of credit dust bowl. Probably 60% of the people earn a living from agriculture: farming, feedlots, machinery, the Kraft cheese plant in nearby Melrose. Bruce Buchanan, who runs a food market on Main Street, shook out the dice to see who would pay the bill for the 10:30 a.m. coffee crowd and said of the President's State of the Union address: "Oh, he's great. When he gets done, we'll have the rich and the poor. But he's great." Even a visitor primed...
...market for synthetic bananas. In Harvard Associates' MacManager ($50), players run their own widget making companies. In Scarborough's Make Millions ($50), the simulation includes an office with all the trappings of a corporate desktop, down to a working computer, a telephone that never stops ringing, a plant that needs watering and an unending flow of memos...
...underlings: accounting, typing, record keeping. Now there is a new genre of software designed to help managers with one job that they alone can do: making the final decisions. One of these new programs, Lightyear ($495), automatically weighs the pros and cons involved in, say, choosing where a new plant should be built. The executive starts by listing the factors that will influence his decision: How high are local property taxes? What are the prevailing wage rates? After supplying the relevant data for each alternative building site, the executive simply hits a button and lets the computer come up with...