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...that conditions at Hsinchu have never been so dire in the park's 29-year history. Wu says that two years ago, the companies that job hunters most often sought out using his service were microchip makers and electronics manufacturers; last year, the most-searched-for company was convenience-store chain 7-11. "I think there's extreme panic right now," Wu says...
...Waldo Peirce to the right—he’s always watching me. I could be at one end of the store or the other and I swear he’s always looking at me,” says MacDonald, the owner of Leavitt and Peirce. “Ah, that’s okay, he makes sure I keep the bar raised high...
...Leavitt and Peirce has changed hands several times since its founding. In the 1950s, the Ehrlich family, renowned Boston tobacconists and pipe makers, took over the store but made few changes to its interior. Richard and William Ehrlich ‘22, ‘25, who operated the store as well as the family’s historic tobacco shop in Boston, hired MacDonald’s father to manage both stores, and MacDonald himself began running Leavitt and Peirce in the mid-1980s...
...that this assumes that people who cannot afford a $500 a month mortgage payment can afford a payment of only $350. But in most cases this does not matter. As people turn away from debt and toward savings, a house is no longer a good mattress in which to store cash. Perhaps more to the point, with joblessness on the rise and many middle class household budgets built around two people working full-time, it does not take much bad luck to undermine a perfectly compassionate program which also pretends to have the power to keep residential real estate values...
...turn of the 20th century, the landmarks that now define Harvard were still a distant reality. Where the Harvard Kennedy School is now, a railroad yard stood. The land that would later host Eliot and Winthrop Houses were occupied by an unsightly mixture of power plants, coal yards, and store houses. The present-day iconic buildings, including Widener, Lamont Library, and the Science Center had yet to be built...