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Harvard's DeWolfe St. affiliated housing complex, which may house most of the College's transfer students, is scheduled to be completed by this coming...
Harvard's DeWolfe St. affiliated housing complex, which may house most of the College's transfer students, is scheduled to be completed by this coming...
...transfer options open for women, many couples are adopting a your-turn- my-turn strategy. Grace Flores-Hughes, 44, gave up a government job to follow the career of Lieut. General Harley Arnold Hughes, 54; she no sooner settled into an academic post in Omaha than her husband's career relocated them back to Washington. "I knew that one day if I needed something, he would support me," she says. That day came in 1987 when she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be director of community-relations service at the U.S. Justice Department. Harley Hughes, who faced...
Given the emotional and economic toll, an increasing number of couples are simply choosing not to transfer. Confronted with the mounting resistance, companies are beginning to respond. Fully 75% of the 1,000 companies that belong to the Washington-based Employee Relocation Council offer services designed to make relocation more attractive to spouses, from writing basic resumes to pooling job listings with other companies to expedite a spouse's employment search...
That huge transfer of wealth does not sit well with Northeasterners, who face a gloomy future because of cutbacks in the defense, financial and high- tech industries. Retail sales in New England are flat or falling. In the five-month period ending last May, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost 15,000 private-industry jobs, their first drop in such employment since 1982. Economists believe a lasting increase in oil prices would hit the area hard. "It would deepen and prolong the downturn here," says Wayne Ayers, chief economist for the Bank of Boston...