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Skirting Bankruptcy. All the familiar ills of the city play a part in the decisions to move: the housing shortage, spastic transit facilities, increasing air pollution, drug addiction, burglaries and muggings, low-caliber public schools, public-be-damned municipal employees. Probably the most common complaint is the astronomical (and still soaring) cost of living and doing business in Manhattan. Almost everything is more expensive than anywhere else in the U.S.: rents, land, labor, taxes, meals, entertainment and even some forms of genteel bribery. The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates that living in the New York City area costs executives...
...Campaign resolutions last year called for expanding the Board to include three representatives of the public and creating an independent share holders' committee to investigate the impact of GM's policies on auto safety, pollution, mass transit and minority hiring...
...like some sort of unpublicized honor. A delectable scatterbrain, she appears to be permanently stalled somewhere between bed and breakfast. Sandy is one of life's winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voice box quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called How the Other Half Loves...
...defeated the SST, however, felt that mass transit and the need for housing-and many other urgent domestic issues-far outranked the SST. Several of the House freshmen who unexpectedly tipped the balance against the aircraft said as much. Democrat George Danielson of California: "The need to solve other greater social and economic problems was the most compelling factor. The biggest issues are pollution, better housing, more educational opportunities and mass transit." Democrat Nick Begich of Alaska: "The people do not want this airplane. There are other human resources and public works projects that have a higher priority...
...glimmerings of success in some cases. The Aerospace Association's President Harr estimates that the industry now handles $2.5 billion worth of non-aerospace business annually, including urban studies, pollution control and housing. For example, the Rohr Corp., a subcontractor of airplane parts, two years ago began studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says Dr. Richard Michaels, research director of Northwestern University's transportation...