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...these youths shared "a subliminal or barely articulated knowledge" that, at least for them, the possibility of "'making it' in America had become more fantasy than reality." The nation's unemployment rate (4.4% overall and as high as 17% for teenagers) makes the struggle seem fruitless to those unwilling or unable to put in the rigorous educational apprenticeships now needed even for ordinary jobs. Many youths therefore give up, drop out, and become hobos before they are yet old enough to vote...
...Leaves Damascus for "last" time after 16 hours of fruitless talks without agreement and prepares to return...
...years, when the weather turned mild and trees sprouted buds, corporate recruiters would flock to the nation's campuses, intent on signing up the best and the brightest of the graduating seniors. But in the past several years the interviewing often has been a polite and fruitless exercise on both sides: many students were not anxious to join companies-especially those making munitions or polluting the environment-and businesses were not eager to hire large numbers of new graduates amid alternating threats of recession and inflation. This spring the atmosphere has once again changed: the recruiters are back...
...probably fruitless to argue that economics should be an apolitical, value-free science of analysis, that setting social objectives is outside its proper realm. If so, one can only hope that all points of view could be allowed at least token representation. With monetarists clamoring for state control of currency, Keynesians for state control of currency and investment, and Marxists for state control of these and everything else besides, is it too much to ask for a few libertarian economists, content to teach the workings of an unhampered market? Lawrence H. white '77 Marc E. Chardon '75 Christopher M. Berendes...
...Bronx Boys fill all the holes in their infield, which would be a monumental task, and everything else holds up, they will win it all. As of now, however, the crystal ball points to a long, hard, and ultimately fruitless battle for the Yanks. Prediction: third...