Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quite a catch in California...
...officials realize that higher tuition could allow state institutions to siphon some students away. Pat Smith, director of legislative analysis at the American Council on Education, notes that the small private schools "could price themselves out of the market." The rise in fees, however, puts these schools in a catch-22 situation: the more tuitions go up, the more they have to boost scholarship funds, or deny admission to some promising candidates. But if they spend more money on scholarships, the budget goes up, and that in turn forces an additional crease in tuitions...
...inefficient steelmaker. And the pitfalls will be just as deep for high-tech managers as for those in old-line industries. High tech is no passport to business success. Digital Equipment Corp. is a leader in the minicomputer business, but it is now having to run to catch up in micro computers. Xerox pioneered office copy machines, but it has had trouble finding a niche in the office automation market. Southern Biotech was a promising firm in the surging field of genetic engineering, but it filed for bankruptcy after three years in business and a failed research program...
...rules and givebacks of benefits. But wages are still comparatively high. In the U.S., autoworkers at the Big Three companies now average $21.50 an hour in wages and benefits, compared with $12.60 an hour in Japan. Now that the recession is over, the talk in union halls is of catch-up instead of giveback. If executives and labor forget the harsh lessons administered by the recession and foreign competition, their companies will continue to weaken...
...among adult women is now 8.4%, in contrast with 9.8% for adult men. Since service jobs tend to be low paying, however, women earn only 65% of what men do. In the technical professions that look most lucrative for the future, women have lagged badly but are starting to catch up. Women earn about 23% of the master's degrees granted in computer science, up from...