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...sexism certainly isn't peculiar to the Olympics. Watch any TV nowadays--sexist stereotypes run rampant, peddling superfluous products; ABC is only part of the general glut. But where ABC has exclusive responsibility--its coverage of the Olympics--it still contributes to the worst aspects of the Games and an ultra-patriotic my-country-first-or-third attitude. It's bad enough that the competitive, winning-is-everything value system is bound up with the Olympics, but to have ABC emphasize the nation against nation aspects brings back visions of Hitler's 1936 attempt to turn the Olympics into...
...staggering 3,800 of them survive. Editors Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann have decided to publish most of the missives in a series of six stout volumes. This first installment, which collects Virginia's correspondence between the ages of six and 30, includes a glut of juvenilia and ends on the eve of her first publication, before she had become the Virginia Woolf of literary history. Yet it provides the undeniable fascination of watching her become that woman...
...made for the engineering field a few years ago, matched neatly by the actual trend in hiring. He is proud of the correlation. Business school is becoming the newest popular field, he says, with especially women viewing their prospects as favorable in what will, inevitably, provide yet another glut in this scarcity-ridden model...
...reason for the shortfall is Venezuela's refusal to lower crude oil prices below the minimums set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Another reason is a worldwide glut of petroleum...
...Krensky constantly tour the Federated circuit. In the spring of 1974, for example, they reported that Federated's staff of 40 forecasters and market researchers saw a severe recession coming, and warned all the stores to hold down inventory. Result: not only did Federated's branches avoid the glut of unsold goods that plagued competitors last Christmas, but they had the money and warehouse space to start buying again in early 1975. While other stores were holding distress sales, says Lazarus, "we were able to get back into the market and buy desirable merchandise at desirable prices." A further result...