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...mail advertisers, as well as to utilities, department stores, credit-card issuers and other businesses that mail bills by the billions. Says Robert Lenz, assistant comptroller of New York Telephone Co.: "The impact is very direct on us because we mail about 6.2 million bills a month. Roughly each cent of postal increase will cost us some $800,000 a year. That's a big whammo...
...Government-owned corporation that was supposed to earn its own way, the Postal Service has raised rates 150% and cut back service. For example, it now delivers mail to most businesses once a day rather than twice. But it still lost three-quarters of a cent on every piece of mail handled in fiscal 1977, vs. about half a cent in 1974. One reason is that, while almost every other index of the economy has been rising smartly in the past few years, the volume of mail has been stagnant. Last year the Postal Service handled 92 billion pieces...
...site was converted into a greyhound track in 1935, following the passage of laws allowing pari-mutuel betting on horses and dogs. In 43 years, Wonderland, one of Massachusetts' three dog tracks, has grown into a $60 million-a-year enterprise; the state skims off 9 1/2 per cent of this sum. Depending on his quality, each dog may be worth from...
...admitted freshmen, 1614 will enter next fall with 44 deferrals and 24 students still undecided, Fitzsimmons said. The 74-per-cent yield, which includes 46 commuters, is the highest in the country...
Minority students now comprise 20 per cent of each class at the Medical School. This year the school accepted 5 per cent of a total of 3700 applicants, and 10 per cent of its minority applicants...