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Cutbacks have pushed last year's teacher surplus into an outright glut. By N.E.A. estimates, 104,000 newly graduated teachers have been unable to find permanent classroom jobs, 25,000 more than last year. One California district received so many inquiries from job seekers that it has installed a phone recording to tell them it has no openings...
Bethel also said he thought a Teacher Exchange similar to the Job Exchange might help soften effects of the "Ph. D. glut" for Harvard graduates...
...Glut of Longhairs. Ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy for many years. But turning the practice into big business has taken men of vision like Ward Warren, 22, a senior at Babson College near Boston. Last fall Warren sank $25,000-earned in the delicatessen and the snack bar he owns-into Termpapers Unlimited. He now says that he is close to breaking even. "The secret of my success," he says earnestly, "is that my employees really believe in what they're doing. Also, there are a lot of brilliant, long-haired people...
Somehow that objective has not been reached, and more and more students have been forced to live in the Riverside community. What happens, as these large numbers of students continue to glut the market, is that real estate speculators become increasingly willing to pay outrageous prices for family houses, knowing that the return on the buildings, if rented to students, would be nothing short of phenomenal. The owner soon discovers that he can make anywhere from two to four times more by renting to students. In one example, a house on Hughes St. was being rented at about...
...recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...