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...council couldn't legislate away the lure of Cambridge. The universities, the neighborhoods, the ethnic mix, the culture, are all factors in a spiral that may one day prove their own downfall. A recent study by students at the Graduate School of Design, who examined every apartment building in the city, concluded that 45 per cent of the remaining rental housing stock would be converted to condominums this decade unless the government intervened. Fifty-eight per cent of those living in the apartments could not buy the units, mostly for lack of capital. And half that number would...
...have met misunderstanding and hostility from the press and the public since the movement got underway in the 1960s. The category of environmental art includes such diverse and controversial projects as Christo's "Running Fence," which stretched along miles of the California coastline, and Robert Smithson's full-sized "Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake in Utah...
...motor fuel" so that "companies would not have to pass the 50-cent fuel tax on to consumers in the form of higher prices." Companies won't have to pass on higher costs, but if they can, they will. The upshot: yet one more twist in the inflationary spiral...
...most densely populated countries in Central America, El Salvador has been caught up in a deadly spiral of violence that threatens to tear the country apart, much as it did neighboring Nicaragua. So far this year, at least 700 people have been killed-more than in all 1979. Last week was a particularly bloody one. It began with a call for a 24-hour general strike by leftists who hope to bring down the country's ruling junta. Troops and police battled guerrillas in a daylong orgy of violence in the capital, San Salvador, that left, by official count...
...Japan, that were able to recognize and curb inflationary tendencies before they roared put of control. By consistently maintaining a strong currency and exercising a cautious restraint in monetary and fiscal policy, both of these energy-importing countries have thus far been able to withstand the global price spiral...