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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirkpatric Sales' Power Shift three years ago outlined the conflict developing between the North and the South over capital investment--the runaway shop, the declining Northeast industrial corridor, the advantages for corporation investment in the Sunbelt such as room to expand, right to work laws, and limited unionization. Rifkin and Barber, taking the inevitable scenario for their base, analyze the reasons behind declining union membership, the anti-northeast corporate strategy and the failures of the business unionism to address these issue, and introduce a new factor--social capital in pension funds...
This shift began slowly in the early 1960s and, owing to the pressure of black students on white campuses during the late 1960s, the liberal administrators made special efforts to expand the number of black students. Thus, by 1970 some 1759 of the 11,716 freshmen (10 per cent) offered admission to 15 elite colleges in the East were black. For example, Yale's freshman class in the 1970-71 college year was 12 per cent black, Harvard's 10 per cent, Princeton's 16 per cent, Barnard's 22 per cent, and Radcliffe's 17 per cent...
...them some of the equipment and expertise they have developed in exploiting their own North Sea oil deposits. The Arabs, in turn, want the Norwegians, as well as other non-OPEC oil producers like Britain and Mexico, to link up with the cartel in some fashion, the better to expand its power to keep prices high. While the Norwegians emphasized that they had no intention of joining OPEC, Energy Minister Bjartmar Gjerde acknowledged the interest of his country in "prolonging" the benefits it has been getting from its North Sea reserves and noted that Norwegians are beginning to feel "sort...
...gets into serious trouble every time she opens her mouth to speak. Giggling and shrieking fits aside, her voice is flat and expressionless; her face cannot convey any emotion other than blissful self-absorption. In Somebody Killed Her Husband, her debut as a movie star, Fawcett-Majors does not expand her range -only her wardrobe. This film proves that she can look just as swell fully dressed as she did in the scanty outfits of her hit ABC series...
...major goal of the council program is to "expand Harvard's applicant pool by revealing as many hidden pockets of qualified candidates as possible," David Harleston '80, president of the council, said yesterday...