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...Classics program a "godsend," and teammates speak similarly of him. John D. Solomon '85, who jumped from the JV program to the Classics at the same time as Nadkarni, remembers that "he put together a trip to France in 10 days for 12 lunatics, dealt with the language barrier, and did a tremendous...
...writing like this, writing which contents the social and political issues so important to the people of Latin America squarely without becoming potential or losing its special beauty, which distinguished Isabel Allende and The House of the Sports from authors like Marquez who have maintained a barrier between their prose and their politics. By breaking the barrier. Allende has produced a novel important for both is timing and its grace...
...drop in interest rates energized Wall Street for a while. On Monday, which was the first business day after the discount rate cut, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 19.54 points to finish at a record 1304.88, its first close above the 1300 barrier. The bulls tacked additional 4.82 points onto the Dow average on Tuesday, lifting it to a new peak of 1309.7. At that point the market began suffering from one of its recurrent afflictions: acrophobia. Investors started cashing in some of their profits, sending the Dow back down. The industrial average finished the week...
Weitzman contends that even in good times, fixed wages are a barrier to increased employment. Companies today are afraid to hire too many new employees because they do not want to be stuck with them when the economy turns down. But in a share system, says Weitzman, the company would have more incentive to hire new employees. The workers would be there to help when business is good, but they would not be a drag on earnings when it is bad because the employees' average pay would fall along with revenues. Workers might be willing to take...
...just minority youths, tend to have more trouble than adults finding work. But black and Hispanic youngsters have the worst trouble of all. Many lack the reading and speaking skills to handle today's service- industry jobs or the connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids with...