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Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and president of Data Resources Inc. (DRI), a prominent economic forecasting firm, announced this weekend that McGraw-Hill Inc. had agreed to buy the company for $103 million...
...McGraw-Hill said they would purchase 45 per cent of DRI stock from Eckstein and other major shareholders at $50 a share, and agreed to offer the same price to stockholders for the rest of the shares during the rest of this month...
...thought McGraw Hill was a good place to lodge DRI because we cannot fully capitalize on what we develop and they can," Eckstein said yesterday. "We can do more with our technology within McGraw-Hill than alone," Eckstein, head professor in Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," said...
Eckstein said McGraw-Hill's style of management would let DRI maintain its independence and develop. "McGraw-Hill, for instance, owns Business Week but they don't tell them what to print--and they won't tell DRI what to forecast about the economy," Eckstein said yesterday...
...from the $25 tickets and distasteful proximity to the combat zone. Observes Friedberg: "Boston is a city with champagne tastes and beer pocketbooks." It is also a city where social climbing is just not done in Symphony Hall. Unlike younger cities, Boston has class that is bred on Beacon Hill, not bought with hefty contributions to the arts. Says Walter Pierce, director of the Boston University Celebrity Series: "If this were Tulsa, the Metropolitan Center would have happened overnight." For that matter, such other cities as Houston, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta all surpass Boston as arts...