Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry strike could create a tight crude oil situation if itlasts a week or longer. The strike will affect the United States, which buys 900,000 barrels a day from Iran, and Japan, which depends on Iranian crude for 20-per-cent of its annual need...
Business is no longer exclusively a male domain, and neither is Harvard Business School. Of the 785 first-year MBA candidates at the Business School this year, 175 are women. That's 22 per cent--more than any year in Business School history. "It's the first time that women have critical mass at the school," says Elaine B. Medverd, director of the MBA program. "And it makes a big difference in the classroom...
...jump in the number of women came quickly. The first-year class two years ago was 10 per cent women--ten years ago it was only 5 per cent. The increase came as a result of a rise in the number of women applicants, says Regina E. Herzlinger, associate professor of Business Administration and a member of the Admissions and Financial Aid Policy Committee. Sex-blind admissions at the school have kept the fraction of women in the class approximately the same as that in the applicant pool...
...addition, Carter's package proposes a 7 per cent ceiling on salaries. Kaufman said that if this figure is applied as a ceiling on each individual's maximum salary increase, the limit would be "somewhat lower than we were thinking...
...cent limit on tuition] and 7 per cent [limit on salaries] does not impose an enormous hardship," working from what now appear to be the possible effects of the wage and price restrictions, Kaufmann said