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Paula Gold, Massachusetts' assistant attorney general for consumer affairs and one of the seven, said qualified women lawyers are a "marketable commodity" despite the glut of lawyers in the job market...
...September Saturday morning, and the tribes have begun to move. The interstate highways that lace the South start to clog up with a glut of cars, campers and $25,000 motor homes complete with beds, baths, color TVs and banner-streaming antennas. Citizen's Band radios howl with rebel yells, chants and incantations: Eat 'em up, Dogs! Get 'em, Gators! Roll, Tide! The college football season has arrived. Everyone who could ferret out a ticket is going to The Game. Which The Game? It doesn't matter. The South is renewing its annual passion, and every...
...Washington any longer talks seriously of "breaking" the OPEC oil cartel. Indeed, all indications are that the recession-induced world oil glut is shrinking and that the industrial countries will be stepping up their orders from OPEC over the next two years. The U.S. has counted on its carefully nurtured relationship with Saudi Arabia -the pivotal OPEC country because it has the most oil-to keep price rises reasonable. At Saudi insistence, the OPEC members did not increase oil costs during their last price jamboree, in May. But OPEC may decide that the recovery is healthy enough in the industrial...
...year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut that will harm farm prices, however, because the U.S.S.R. and drought-stricken Europe stand ready to buy the U.S. surpluses...
...million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There is a beef glut right now-and the chance of a shortage next winter...