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...more authoritative, and considerably more downbeat, analysis came in a comprehensive article published in June in the Government's Monthly Labor Review. Its author, Diane Nilsen Westcott, a BLS economist, asserts that blacks have actually made smaller gains in the workplace during the past ten years than they did during the 1960s. In 1972, she says, black men filled 2.6% of all management and administrative jobs and only slightly more, 3.2%, in 1980; even that rise, notes Westcott, could be wiped out by statistical error. Moreover, blacks commonly fill positions, like restaurant managers or school administrators, that pay relatively...
Financial investors, meanwhile, were not so downbeat. The New York Stock Exchange tallied a record leap on Wednesday, and a record volume the following day (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
While Reagan's efforts on the tax bill fueled the market surge, the rally was initially ignited by declining interest rates and the stunning news that Wall Street's two most influential pessimists had changed their downbeat tune. The first hint that something extraordinary was about to unfold came on Monday morning. The First Boston investment firm announced that Albert Wojnilower, its chief economist, had revised his economic forecast. After warning for months that the huge federal budget deficit could send interest rates shooting back up again, Wojnilower now admitted that the cost of money would probably continue...
...friend in disfavor can become a so-called friend, and similarly the nation's leaders can become so-called leaders. Many other words can be handily tilted by shortening, by prefixes and suffixes, by the reduction of formal to familiar forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with...
Harvard came into the game on a potential downbeat after an apathetic performance against nationally eighth-ranked Rutgers Saturday. The 8-6 loss robbed them of a chance to break into the rankings themselves, and all but eliminated them from consideration for the national tournament later this month...