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Currently, 1600 of computer science and electronic engineering positions remain unfilled within a 30-mile radius of Boston, Sanders said. Anyone with an electrical engineering degree could "walk into the door of any company in Boston, [and] they will throw gold dust at your feet," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineer Shortage | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors-just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Light on the Road to Damascus | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...over town. As a consequence, real estate prices are declining. Even so, there consequence, real estate prices are declining. Even so, there are no buyers, which contributes to a vicious economic cycle. Because the unemployed cannot sell their houses, most of them must limit their job hunting to a radius of 30 or 40 miles from Fond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Waiting in a Tense Town | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...telephone operators notes on a lavender slip of paper the time, name, address and problem-chest pains and dizziness. The slip is relayed to a second room of dispatchers who stay in constant touch with the 36 ambulance substations in the city. Most substations serve a radius of two to three miles, but there are specialty brigades in such disciplines as cardiology that cover the city at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dial 03 for Speedy Emergency Aid | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...total timberlands-executives expect to salvage about 80% of the logs by sawing those not badly scorched into usable lumber. Sportsmen who venture into what was once prime fish and game area on the mountain's flanks will find nearly all life wiped out within a 15-mile radius of the crater. The rivers and state-run fish hatcheries near the mountain have been ruined as breeding grounds for steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. Said Mike Wharton, an employee of the Washington State department of game: "We've lost millions of fish." When might the area recover? Replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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