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...million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA's Northwest regional administrator, maintains that "arsenic is toxic at any level" and Asarco's new hoods will "still result in emissions in the air." Counters Larry Lindquist, the smelter's plant manager: "We don't think cancer deaths can be related to the plant. There's been no proof that these emissions cause health problems...
...booming economy of 20 years ago, only about 500,000 students graduated from college annually. With national unemployment at just 5% or so, jobs for college grads were plentiful. This year, according to Victor Lindquist, co-author of Northwestern University's Endicott Study on College Placement, about one-third of the graduates will leave campus without jobs. Indeed, there has been an estimated 50% drop in offers made by employers since last year. At Indiana, for example, the administration estimates that fully half of its 7,000 graduates getting their bachelor's degrees will not have positions...
...number of on-campus recruiting interviews this year is down between 20% and 30% from 1982, according to Lindquist. The University of Pennsylvania, for instance, had 800 recruiters in 1981; in 1982 there were 620, and this year only 565. If the economic recovery persists, prospects should improve in 1984, but long-range predictions for employment of college grads remain gloomy. The Federal Government's Scientific Manpower Commission predicts that in 1992 there will be 3.3 million more graduates than jobs requiring a college education...
That set of guidelines, which resulted from negotiations with neighborhood residents, calls for all new industries entering the area to set a hiring goal for "Cambridge residents, particularly the unemployed, underemployed, and unskilled." While Lindquist anticipates problems enforcing that law and says that it may even be ruled unconstitutional, he calls it a step in the right direction toward establishing a united employment policy...
...unemployed could well produce an improved city economy. Politicians, even those suspicious of unfamiliar investors and unpredictable federal programs say they are optimistic about the future. But the uncertainties remain overwhelming. A great distance still exists between the frustration of the unemployment office and the excitement in Russell Lindquist's headquarters. The planner points out one final concern. If Cambridge goes too far in controlling who works for new city businesses. Cambridge residents may find a cold reception from employers in other towns. "I know we like to think of the city as an economic entity," he says...