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Following an undefeated fall season, the Black and White (8-1, 1-0 Ivy) has opened the spring with a tour-de-force performance, beginning with a crushing 51-0 thrashing of Virginia Tech, then sweeping to a 6-1 record in the seven road games of the spring tour...
...that hardly stopped the city of Los Angeles from showering $85 million in tax credits and other incentives on DreamWorks SKG, the new Hollywood studio formed by moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. Also in on the deal were four high-tech companies, including IBM and Silicon Graphics, that are teaming up with DreamWorks to build an entertainment factory on 260 acres of wetlands where Howard Hughes once assembled his lumbering wooden "Spruce Goose" plane. DreamWorks wasn't leaving the area--it needs the specialized talent that lives there--yet Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan didn't want...
Other states have treated California the way the Spanish did Mexico: they have plundered it, taking more than 800 large employers between 1989 and '92. So Republican Governor Pete Wilson pushed through a package of incentives, including across-the-board tax credits aimed at high-tech manufacturers, and created so-called Red Teams of public and private officials to persuade wavering companies not to move. One payoff came last year when a Long Beach--led team assembled an $80 million package that kept McDonnell Douglas from shifting part of the production of its new MD-11 jetliner to other states...
...marine biology isn't sort of Jacques Cousteau-ish anymore," Palumbi said. "It still is quite a bit adventurous, but you have to use high-tech equipment to look around...
...high-tech revolution and the globalization of the economy has created a high demand for people with motivation, work ethic, creativity, flexibility and international experience, skills that are fostered at Harvard (examples can be found inc consulting, finance, medicine and other growing professions). I would like to quote Professor David Laibson, who responded this way in an Economics 1011b lecture to a question about Pat Buchanan: "Students of this university and this class will be those who benefit most from the drastic changes in our economy. The demand for lowly-skilled workers and their standard of living have decreased sharply...