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...movie is hard to dismiss, for its prefab ingredients are often stirred to a boil. Energetically directed and well acted (largely by unknowns), Saturday Night Fever succeeds in capturing the animal drive of disco music and the social rituals of the people who dance to its beat. Were it not for some failures of dramatic nerve in the second half, this film might actually have been the rock-'n'-roll Rocky it so desperately aspires...
...more than 1.5 million foreign workers have arrived to labor on development projects, rents have soared 600% in 18 months to ridiculous levels. A house in Jedda rents for $2,200 a month. Foreign firms are required to bring along prefab housing for their workers. Turnover is high among foreign workers. The Saudis imported thousands of Egyptians only to see them leave after saving up their high wages for a few months. Europeans and Americans are often bored by austere moral standards imposed by Saudi Arabia's ascetic Wahabi sect of Islam...
Despite the mistakes?the list also includes some imported prefab houses that were devoured by Amazon bugs, and a supposedly super dredging machine that got hopelessly mired in Amazon mud?the progress at Jari is extraordinary. So far, about 185,000 acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows...
NICK HAD just landed a clerkship at a brand new prefab luxuriana by the sea. I met him as he got off work one night, at the twelfth floor lounge of his motel overlooking the ocean and the honkytonk Boardwalk...
Feeling Trapped. But the housing squeeze has pressed heavily on the young and on middle-class families without corporate connections. In the Boston area, college students who could once afford to live off-campus are retreating to their dormitories. In Northern California, rural areas are dotted with prefab domes and A-frames put up by young families who cannot afford suburban housing. Two young couples who are neighbors in an apartment building in a Chicago suburb are trying to stretch their combined income of some $30,000 by going in together on a town house. Having set aside enough money...