Word: dollar
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That is changing. Mindful of the women's movement, fearful of Government action, and stung by a multimillion-dollar antidiscrimination suit filed against NBC by its female employees in 1975, the three major networks have discovered that women deliver the news as credibly as men. In the three years since Pauline Frederick left NBC (she is now a commentator for National Public Radio), the number of women network journalists on-camera has nearly doubled, to 25. While Barbara Walters was making headlines with her $1 million-a-year contract at ABC, three women moved into newsreading jobs. NBC assigned...
...increase, to its corporate parent, IC Industries, Inc., the company that owns the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Midas' earnings are not reported separately, but analysts guess they may be about $23 million annually, pretax. Midas President Ralph Weiger, 52, will not confirm that, but he does say dollar earnings in 1976 were five times as large as two years earlier...
...amount of gift money collected by the Fund has risen steadily even though inflation means there are no great leaps in real dollar terms," Harding said. But the number of alumnae contributing to the annual drives fluctuates, she added...
Last year's tenth reunion class has a few very large gifts which allowed it to raise an unprecedented sum which Clifton said will "probably be unbeatable for years." This year's tenth reunion won't exceed the amount in dollar terms but they will probably set a participation record, he added...
...House Subcommittee on Appropriations for Labor, Health, Education and Welfare reduced the original $14 million dollar request after opposition by Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. These universities have the only two veterinary schools in the northeast. The schools felt it would be more economical to expand existing programs...