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...fuel-efficient cars and hybrids as sales of once popular trucks and sport utility vehicles evaporate under the weight of rising fuel prices. "This was a watershed month," says Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.'s group executive for marketing and sales, following news that the company suffered another huge drop in trucks sales in May. Trucks and sport utility vehicles accounted for 47% of Ford's sales as recently as February but only 34% in May, as consumers opted for compact and subcompact passenger cars. General Motors is adding a third shift at a two assembly plants to meet...
...With a slight drop in yield—from 78 to 76 percent—and a smaller number of admits, 200 high school seniors on the waitlist received thick envelopes from Fitzsimmons’ office late this spring. This raised the acceptance rate from the initial 7.1 percent to 7.8 percent. (Last year just 50 freshmen were admitted from the waitlist...
According to the agency report, oil production in the United States, the North Sea, and the USSR will stagnate by the late 1980s and even OPEC output will drop due to “declining reserves in some countries and political decisions in others.” At the same time, the energy needs of Third World countries will increase dramatically thanks to economic development, increasing urbanization, and industrialization. So a large group will be fighting for a smaller...
President Fernandez argues that inflation has been "overstated" and that independent estimates of an annual 25% rise in prices are "not serious." The government claims the inflation rate is only 9%. But inflation is probably the main reason for the drop in her poll ratings, says Sergio Berensztein, whose polling company, Poliarquia, has recorded the plummeting numbers of the President: "It is a sudden drop of 20 points in the two months since the farm crisis began." While the public mood began to shift at the end of her husband's tenure, Berensztein says several factors gave it impetus after...
...senior thesis, Beck spent time in Tokyo riding with a biker gang of high school drop-outs to investigate Japanese juvenile delinquency. He said that the significance of the Hoopes Prize was uncertain at the time, since the new award was fairly unknown...