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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Replacing the working-class families are the more transient paraprofessionals and other white-collar workers employed in metropolitan Boston. "Their political interests tend to be a lot different than families," says Foster. But city pols are unwilling to speculate about just what that change means...
...Harvard, the area lacks a strong refugee community. Mark Kuchnent, a Russian Jew who is currently a researcher in Soviet science and policy at the Russian Research Center, concurs that "there is no organized Soviet community of immigrants." Harvard does, however, have a comparatively large foreign community because dissidents tend to emigrate to large cities such as New York or Boston, although "there's no rhyme or reason to which university gets people," according to Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for Russian Research...
...high prices. That is one reason, economists point out, for the auto industry's troubles, since it is one of the heaviest steel users. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "In the long run, jobs saved by protection of one industry tend to be offset by the loss of jobs in other industries." In the short run, protectionism is a big contributor to inflation...
Discussions among computer makers tend to be high-tech talk tinged with evangelism. This year portable computers were gospel. As many as 40 companies have introduced portables that range in size from relatively bulky 30-pounders to lap-size models that weigh about...
...course, a game of skill, but not many people understand the nature of this skill, and fewer have seen it in action at the level of world-class play. High-stakes poker is secretive; it is illegal in most places, and embarrassing both to losers, whose associates tend to fret, and to winners, who dread the taxman. Thus the English writer and poker player A. Alvarez (author of another examination of self-destruction, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide) was beguiled when he heard that there was one card room in the world where an observer could watch...