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...sites dot downtown neighborhoods. In most places there is no new construction. Office rents are plunging, and vacancy and delinquency rates are soaring. Overleveraged developers are being forced to refinance their loans and offer sweetheart deals to prospective tenants -- free rent for a year, say, with an exercise room thrown into the bargain. Declares Richard Peiser, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Development at the University of Southern California: "We are going through the greatest restructuring of the real estate industry in this century...
...season's first seven games, the ultraconservative Harvard air attack has produced only 50 pass receptions--one fewer than Brown split end Rodd Torbert's total. Harvard QB Adam Lazarre-White has not thrown for 100 yards in a game since Harvard's 35-14 loss to Holy Cross on September...
...voters would force them to retire. But any broad effort to restrict the tenure of lawmakers could have an unintended negative effect: it might deflect public attention -- and rage -- away from what the people's representatives are actually doing in Congress to a debate over whether they should be thrown out on a set schedule regardless of their performance...
...following is a list of a few of the many prestigious fellowships that you stand no chance of winning and which I've thrown in here just to make you drool...
Even after years of belt tightening that was supposed to make companies more competitive, many firms are still cutting deeply into their white-collar work forces. The firings have thrown secretaries and managers alike into an increasingly hostile job market. "I was in shock," says a former top executive of a Midwestern men's clothing retailer who was laid off in August. The dismissal left the middle-aged breadwinner with six months' severance pay and three college-age children. "Right now, companies are paring down just to survive," he says. "But the fact that ((the economy)) hits home and strikes...