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...September, International Harvester, the city's second-largest employer, decided to reduce production drastically, scuttling 1,500 jobs over the next year. But the loss was a "cloud with a silver lining of great depth," insists Mayor Winfield Moses, who helped launch a spirited campaign to diversify the city's economy, save and expand existing businesses and lure new industry. Moses created the city's first economic development department. Taking advantage of publicity about the flood, the department has begun inviting companies to locate in "the city that saved itself." Bids are soon...
...terror began on June 22, 1941. On that day, after two years of Soviet occupation, "the bad was succeeded by the worst." Germany turned on its ally to the East and the Red Army crumbled under the onslaught. Nazi shock troops swept into Bialystok, the city with the second-largest Jewish population in Poland, and wasted no time implementing the Fubrer's plans. On the first Friday of the occupation, Pisar recalls, over a thousand Bialystok Jews were herded into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds of men--including--three of Pisar...
...ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double O," reportedly threatened to form an opposition socialist party, Moi rammed through a constitutional amendment converting K.A.N.U.'s de facto one-party rule in Kenya to formal status...
...commercial housing and office development faces its last obstacle January 18 when the Corporation considers whether to proceed with the two-year-old plans for what would be Harvard Square's second-largest business complex...
...Mackey calls its attempt to "be all things to all people." Founded as the original land-grant college. MSU has based its development and curriculum on the philosophy of providing good education for a wide variety of people. Today, the university serves more than 40,000 students, boasting the second-largest on-campus population in the nation...