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...Detroit, a federal judge threw out a voluntary quota system adopted by the Detroit Police Department. Since 1974, in making promotions to the rank of sergeant, officials have skipped over some 200 white officers who had ranked higher than black officers on promotional eligibility lists, primarily on the basis of an exam. At one point, 29 new white sergeants were chosen in strict numerical rank from the top of a 298-man promotional eligibility list; then a matching group of blacks was promoted. Among the new black sergeants, the highest-ranking was 36th; the others ranged as far down...
...them to fill a class of 500 -a yield of 47%. Georgia Tech has the same yield, and Emory University in Atlanta has a 38% rate. There is no dearth of colleges with still lower yields. Notes Writer-Educator David Tilley in Hurdles: The Admissions Dilemma in American Higher Education, published last week (Atheneum; $13.95): "Many institutions labeled as selective...
...impact would vary from country to country; but overall the amendment would push the tax bills for Americans overseas at least as high as for Stateside employees, and in many cases far higher. Rich, high-technology firms that need to keep only a few executives overseas can pick up the increased taxes for their employees. Doing so would of course increase an employee's income and raise his taxes still more the following year. But if U.S. firms in labor-intensive operations attempt to compensate their overseas Americans for the extra tax load, their payroll costs could rise...
...dollar makes it increasingly difficult for even well-paid American workers to support Stateside living standards overseas, companies have had to offer many fringes (housing, cost-of-living and education allowances) to induce top people to take foreign postings. Compared with New York City, costs of living are 21% higher in Paris, 34% more in Bonn, 41% in Geneva and 56% in Tokyo...
Anywhere from 40% to 85% of AMC's owners have responded to past recalls; Ford's and GM's rates run from 70% to 85%. Generally, the newer the car, the higher the response rate, because new owners want feel that they are get everything they paid for. Also, the response to defects is usually higher than that to emission problems. Owners believe that pollution control system failures will somehow improve gas mileage and engine performance, though Brown asserts that that would not be the case with the Eaton part. "As far as we can tell," says...