Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Blodgett Pool will probably be the site of the second Women's International short-course swimming meet January 6-7, the AAU announced yesterday...
...poker game between the two states had been escalating for a year. Ohio offered to buy up the site VW was considering--an old World War 2 tank factory--and lease it back to the company at low rates. Pennsylvania matched that bid for its New Stanton site--a factory shell built by Chrysler in the early '70s but never occupied--and threw in a 95 per cent cut in local taxes raised by offering to build rail and highway links to its site. Pennsylvania matched that, and as a clincher, persuaded two state pension funds...
...abated taxes. Milton Shapp looked like a financial wizard, and the Rabbits and Dashers came rolling off the line in New Stanton. No one picked up on the Cleveland Plain Dealer interview with the president of volkswagen America: He said that VW had never really considered the Ohio site, because the tank factory was simply too antiquated for their purposes, and that the company had always intended to go to New Stanton where the factory was already built for modern auto assembly...
...this more true than in tax abatements Shapp offered. Two years ago in Working Papers, MIT economist Bennett Harrison published a study of corporate decision-making on plant location. Harrison concluded that tax incentives were so far down the corporate priority list--much less important than factors such as site access and condition, workforce composition and education, union presence--that they served primarily as windfall profits. But meanwhile, states and localities are racing each other to prostitute their tax bases, to see who can give away the most to the large corporations. One state's success in luring business actually...
...highway that will cross Israel and link the Sinai to Jordan. Finally, there is the question of where the treaty will be signed. Israel will opt for Jerusalem, Egypt for either Mount Sinai (Sadat's sentimental favorite) or Cairo. Failing agreement-and judging from obvious precedent-the site could turn out to be Washington...