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Many long-time residents and political leaders predict that these projects could provide needed jobs, especially blue collar and unskilled employment needed to preserve Cambridge's diversely populated neighborhoods. The losses of blue collar jobs have levelled off, says Lindquist, but few positions have been replaced. Instead, most of the new opportunities have been in almost exclusively white collar fields such as research and industrial consulting. This development has allowed the city's economy to grow at a slow but steady pace during generally rough economic times, but it has also brought a higher-income group to the city, driven...
Business leaders in the community generally predict that the economy will rebound in the near future, allowing businesses to occupy these revitalization sites. "The city is bursting at the seams," says Barbara Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. "You can only hold back development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
...Haig, who would talk to Habib, who would talk to the Lebanese, who, finally, would talk to the P.L.O. The responses of the P.L.O. would work their way back to Begin and Haig through the same elaborate route. Said one top U.S. official: "It is just too early to predict the outcome?or even to judge which way things are going." The U.S. feared there was little time to get the P.L.O. to surrender its arms before the Israelis, contrary to pledges they had made from the start, took matters into their own hands and attacked Beirut. Said another Washington...
...office with computers of other managers, his secretary's word processor and centralized files or duplication services. A businessman could thus call up information for a report, write it out, send it to duplication and then to the company files with the push of a few buttons. Experts predict that the equipment to tie these various machines together will be a $1 billion-a-year business...
Backers of the river reversals are convinced that the great investment-at least $40 billion in the early stages alone-would pay off handsomely. They predict grain production would be boosted by as much as 30 million to 60 million metric tons a year-equivalent to 18% to 35% of the U.S.S.R.'s current crop. They also point out that the northern waters would revitalize two major inland seas, the Caspian and the Aral, whose levels have been dropping rapidly because of irrigation needs...