Word: economists
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...shortages are also appearing in the least-skilled jobs. "You drive around and every fast-food restaurant has a HELP WANTED sign hanging in the window," observes Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. Such signs also decorate the grocery stores, clothing boutiques and delicatessens filling strip malls across the continent. Not only are high sales creating many new jobs, but employee turnover is enormous. At these levels, says Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower Inc., the world's largest provider of temporary help, job experience, even the briefest exposure to hamburger flipping, is almost as sought...
Sinai, who is chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, the Boston-based econometric prognosticator, forecasts a profit rise of 4% this year and 5% next. But he notes that his figures are below the lowest estimates being made by Wall Street analysts. He expects--"by the end of the summer"--a correction of 10% to 15% in today's stratospheric stock-market prices that will interrupt a long-term bull trend. Varvares is both more and less optimistic. He foresees only an 8% drop in the Dow Jones industrial average but one that will fall "on a sustained basis...
Once again, just as it has prevented rain from falling on Commencement Day for the last 346 years, Harvard has defied gravity. When Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania announced their decisions to offer more generous financial aid packages earlier this year, any Harvard-trained economist might have expected that a price war would drive down the costs of a Harvard education...
...star members of the Afro-American studies department and a Nobel Prize-winning economist have been named University professors, Harvard's most prestigious Faculty post...
What happens when you put a prizewinning pugilist, an economist, a world-renowned opera singer, a Harvard House master and a television personality in the same room...