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Remember all those worries about the Japanese buying up prime U.S. real estate, including such high-ticket properties as Rockefeller Center in New York City and the giant ARCO Plaza in Los Angeles? Well, the big worry now is that the Japanese may be selling some of those properties, taking more bounce out of an already soft market. Apparently, the worsening U.S. economy and the battering of Tokyo financial markets are forcing many giant Japanese companies to reconsider investment strategies. Among the first properties rumored to be on the block: three office towers in Midtown Manhattan and some major buildings...
Howard Yourow, who is pursuing his doctorate at the University of Michigan Law School, has organized a mock confirmation hearing that will take place at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum tomorrow afternoon. Yourow said that everyone in attendance will be allowed to play the part of a Senate Judiciary Committee member, so that they can ask questions of the nominee and cast votes for or against his appointment to the high court...
...ARCO disaster would be disturbing enough on its own, but it was just the latest incident in a string of fires, tanker spills and explosions that have rocked the Gulf Coast petrochemical strip from Texas to Louisiana. Last October, 23 employees died and 130 were injured when explosions sent 100-ft. walls of flame through a Phillips Petroleum plastics plant in nearby Pasadena. At the same plant on June 8, eight workers were hospitalized after a fire in a resin-producing unit. That same day explosions severely damaged the 886-ft. oil tanker Mega Borg, spewing a 30-mile-long...
Speakers addressing an audience of 150 in the Arco Forum all agreed on one thing: the story of Bay State politics is, in the words of moderator and Institute of Politics Director Charles Royer, "not a happy" one. They did not agree on much else...
Environmental problems stem from deep-rooted flaws within the structure of developed society, said environmental advocates assembled at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum of Public Affairs last night...