Word: corp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Welch predicted that the pay of black workers would steadily fall further behind that of whites because the blacks would be trapped in dead-end jobs. But as a U.C.L.A. professor, he suspected that social change had outmoded his pessimism, arid he joined with James P. Smith, a Rand Corp. economist in a new study of census data. Last week they released their conclusions: between 1955 and 1975, black male workers increased their pay from 63.5% to 76.9% of the white average-and for women the black-white gap just about disappeared. In 1955 black female workers earned only...
...modern automobile engine is continually punished by extremes of heat, cold and vibration. Engineers consider such stresses in their designs, but some times they miscalculate. Just such a mistake appeared to be behind the Environmental Protection Agency's order last week that American Motors Corp. recall 270,000 of its 1976 cars- all the autos it made that year except those for California, which have special pollution gear -plus 40,000 of its 1975 and 1976 Jeeps and mail trucks. The fault lay in a $20 pollution control system part, made for AMC by Cleveland's Eaton Corp...
...order against Dillon, an economics major who is presently on a leave of absence from Harvard, also alleges that he represented his firm as an independent business and himself as a broker-dealer when in reality his firm was a branch office of the Securities Investment Services Corp. (SIS) of Boston and Dillon an agent of that corporation. He was charged, further, with depositing payments in a Dillon Company bank account over which he alone had control...
Warner Communications Inc., which will publish the paperback edition, paid him more than $2 million. Warner then sold the hard-cover rights to Grosset & Dunlap and the newspaper syndication rights to the Times Syndication Sales Corp., owned by the New York Times Co. Sixty periodicals−30 newspapers in the U.S. and 30 magazines and newspapers abroad−this week began reprinting excerpts. U.S. newspapers were limited to running 15,000 words, foreign papers 25,000−a mere 3% to 5% of Memoirs...
Amid the hype and hoopla that usually enliven its annual meetings in a vast warehouse at Needham, Mass., Polaroid Corp. last week pulled a few more rabbits from its seemingly bottomless hat of technological tricks. President William McCune Jr. showed off a new SX-70 camera that uses ultrasonic waves to focus its lens instantly and automatically. With unaccustomed modesty, Chairman Edwin Land, the father of instant photography, said: "This is the first development in which the only part I played was in expressing admiration for those who did the work...