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Does anybody know what GPA is good enough to get into Harvard Medical School...
Some Wall Street experts predict painful new layoffs at many U.S. firms. "What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...
...FSLIC of being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...
Benton left New York for good in 1935, returning to Missouri. By then the regionalist movement had formed around his "heroic" pastoral vision, and he felt obliged to repudiate the city, whose art world was, he announced, a veritable Sodom of fanatics like Stieglitz and "precious fairies" who "wear women's underwear." Yet an odd thing about regionalism, as Adams shows in amusing detail, is that it was the only art movement ever launched by a mass- circulation magazine. Regionalism's promoter was a small-time Kansas-born art dealer named Maynard Walker, who sensed that the resentments of America...
Thomas Hart Benton is admirable for his cussedness and independence, but these qualities are no guarantee of good painting, as a 100th-anniversary show in Kansas City proves. Benton's stylized regionalist scenes, writhing with down- home figures in buckskins and gingham, are caricatured and pumped and tarted up until the eye wants to cry uncle...