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...second program examined is job-training. Forrester gives it the benefit of every doubt; he assumes it costs the city nothing, adds nothing to the tx rate, and proves one hundred per cent effective in turning the Underemployed into skilled workers. The program is assumed to reach 5 per cent of the underemployed each year. The positive results of this program, however--like the last--are almost entirely consumed by in-migration. Moreover, the increased number of those in the Labor class makes crowding in Worker Housing more severe, competition for jobs tighter, and the prospect of leaving the city...
...final, and most damaging program Forrester looks at is the Low-Cost Housing Program. Assumed to be funded by a larger governmental body, the computer model's housing program does not effect the tx rate for the city but does provide jobs for Labor and Underemployed through construction. The program is designed to build housing for five per cent of the Underemployed per year, but because of the counteractive effects of land shortages and labor shortages (labor rapidly leaves the city), it averages only 2.5 per cent per year. Even this rate of construction, though, proves very harmful...
...breed of spy hero, freed from Bondage to preposterous gags and gimmickry. Harry Palmer, British secret agent, is a scruffy non-U type who too often finds himself tied to a desk, eying the girls through thick spectacles and a jungle of red tape. To get a TX-82 riot squad authorization, he needs a 3-H security clearance. And he, no sooner takes on a case than he must file those bloody L-101 progress reports. In his off-hours, though, Harry enjoys fine cuisine, whipped up in his own kitchen. News of a ?100 raise sets...
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...Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash, but when bond prices follow the same destructive course, there is reason for the gravest apprehension...