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...bottles. Not Daniel K. Ludwig. At 79, he is a veteran of seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping together $25 to buy a sunken boat. Now a restless recluse with a fortune worth perhaps as much as $3 billion, Ludwig continues to expand his shipping-based business colossus into new areas. Besides his National Bulk Carriers, Inc., which with 49 vessels operates one of the world's largest tanker fleets, Ludwig's interests now include ranching in Venezuela, mining in Australia, and resort hotels in the Bahamas, Bermuda and Acapulco...
...value of the computer training program at Leavenworth is that it provides relevant training for inmates who, upon release, are able to find jobs that utilize the skills they have learned while incarcerated. We are trying to expand such programs so that incarcerated offenders may have more opportunities to acquire skills and experience in legitimate occupations...
Shinagel would also like to expand enrollment to fully cover heating and other maintenance costs for classrooms now subsidized by the Faculty, something he hopes will be helped by the new Tuition Assistance Plan for Harvard employees and an advertising campaign. But there are limits to expansion, and Shinagel wishes to avoid alienating other schools in the area who fear competition from Harvard's low-cost program, the least expensive in the Boston area...
America has been the land of opportunity. During the upswing of the industrial revolution, virtually limitless natural resources, security from military vulnerability, access to capital and to the manpower of Europe and Africa helped to expand its wealth. The opening of the West spurred the pioneering spirit of adventure, assertion and toughness. Would America be what it is without the caliber of its women-not only the work they did but the manner in which they sustained the family? Now they have lit the flame of equal rights, which must be a part of the desire of all weaker groups...
...carries a story depicting the use of Nathan Glazer's book Affirmative Discrimination as a tool of anti-busing and other seemingly reactionary forces. The book, which effectively documents some of the excesses and contradictions of affirmative action programs, should serve as a warning to those who attempt to expand the scope of these programs, such as Harvard's to an extent that they become laughable--but much worse--legitimately vulnerable to the criticisms of those who would have them dismantled altogether...