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...when a neighborhood's real estate potential skyrockets, landlords look for a way to get the current residents out and the wealthier residents--who can pay higher rents or higher condominium prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...
...computer hardware who are selling more and more of their own software. Industry analysts see VisiCorp as a likely candidate for going public during the next two years. With appraisals of the company's worth running about $125 million, a public stock offering would make Fylstra an even wealthier young man. That would free him to strike out in another new direction or work toward becoming even bigger in the burgeoning software market...
...From the wealthier suburbs, the long-hairs show up as well. This is what is left of the Brookline-breed hippies, but many of them seem to have turned to the New Wave as a supplement to the usual staple of Dead, Doors, and heavy metal. They dress differently: army jackets and head bands, Levis, no leather--much greasier: In addition to Marlboros, some are smoking Djarum clove cigarettes. The know all about slam dancing from reading Boston Rocker, but they dance near the outskirts of the real action, noticeably intimidated by Psycho's crowd...
...point. Congress was concerned last year that the investment tax credits would be of little use to companies that needed to buy new machinery but had no profits and thus no taxes to reduce. So the legislators allowed such companies, in effect, to sell their tax breaks to wealthier businesses, which would buy the machinery on paper, take the tax credits and lease the equipment back to the poorer companies, which would then use it. Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser, calls the idea "the equivalent of food stamps for undernourished corporations." And well...
Such a tumult would ravage the country physically and almost certainly kill tens of thousands, dwarfing in duration and bloodshed the bushwar in Zimbabwe. Besides, the stakes are much larger in the wealthier South Africa, for the Afrikaners, knowing they have nowhere else to go if the Blacks were to prevail in a civil war, would fight to a bitter end. Very rarely is violence the best means of resolving conflict; a revolution to bring about immediate majority rule might be the worst...