Word: streets
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...last December, that plan ran into unexpected opposition when the full Faculty overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the University to use the property--located directly across the street from Widener and Lamont Libraries--for another library or to ease a shortage of faculty offices...
...cost cutting seems destined to continue in a world so interconnected that a decision made in Bonn can lower prices on Wall Street. The West German central bank inadvertently slowed last week's stock-market rally, for example, by raising interest rates to keep German inflation in check. The move briefly touched off fresh fears of a worldwide round of rate hikes and slower growth. Meanwhile, competition from Japanese and European firms that have opened U.S. offices is helping depress Wall Street commissions. Wall Street is not alone in its distress, for such financial centers as London and Tokyo...
Some Wall Street experts predict painful new layoffs at many U.S. firms. "What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...
Anniversaries are television's most annoying bad habit. No TV series, it seems, can pass a milestone ending in zero (Barbara Walters' 50th special, Sesame Street's 20th season) without leading us on a forced march down Memory Lane. Now, saints preserve us, the 50th anniversary of TV itself has arrived -- at least by one measure. On April 20, 1939, RCA formally introduced the modern system of TV broadcasting at the New York World's Fair. One could just as plausibly trace TV's origin back to 1927, when the nation's first experimental TV stations went...
...federal regulators liquidate everything from condominiums to gravel pits, they must move carefully to avoid triggering a plunge in property values. -- Despite a rising Dow, Wall Street faces more layoffs and falling profits. -- Control Data pulls out of the supercomputer market, leaving Cray Research as the sole U.S. firm to compete against rival Japanese manufacturers...