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Land Costs Make For High-Cost Housing Starts, Chester Smolski

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"Here in the Northeast, where housing prices are among the highest in the nation, it is difficult to find measures to reduce the price of housing to make it more affordable. Even with talk of an impending recession, house prices have moderated only slightly, and the real estate business finds itself in a very troubled state."

Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski

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"There was cause for celebration last March 6 at the Department of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. The achievement was the recording of 250 million on the bureau's "population odometer," a device which records the population of this nation at any moment.

Based upon average births, deaths, immigration and emigration, a number is added every 14 seconds to the odometer, for a daily increase of about 6300. It was expected that the population total of 250 million would be confirmed with the results of the April 1 census. But preliminary figures indicate that the country has not yet reached this …

Spotlight: Rhode Island, Chester Smolski, Leon Yacher

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"With the Atlantic bordering on the south and the 28-mile long Naragansett Bay splitting the state along a north-south axis, Rhode Island is nicknamed the "Ocean State." Its early settlement in 1636 and important sea trade there-after made Newport and Providence the seventh and eighth largest cities in the country as of the 1970 Census. The cities are no longer so nationally preeminent, but the state remains heavily populated and ranks behind New Jersey as the second most densely settled state in the nation."

Public Is Walking Away From Street Malls, Chester Smolski

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"It seemed a radical idea: Close off a street to vehicles in the heart of the downtown and open it only to a single use, that of the pedestrian. In today's parlance, this user-friendly pedestrian street or mall would make the shopping experience more enjoyable, safer, lead to more socializing and make it easier for the pedestrian to shop and buy more. And for a while it worked."

Demographics Will Dictate The Future Of Business, Chester Smolski

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"If one could predict the future numbers of a population with some accuracy, that projected data would be most valuable, especially to business."