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...this hurdle should not be insurmountable. In a 1970 College survey, most members of the faculty indicated a preference for teaching undergraduate seminars and tutorials rather than lecture courses. Since graduate enrollments have declined, professors should have more time available to teach undergraduates in smaller settings. And in the largest departments, where faculty-student ratios seem too low to allow enough instruction of this type, we may simply have to enlarge the size of the faculty...
...price of gold, that classic refuge of investors who lack confidence in the dollar, soared nearly $4 per oz. in a single day, one of the largest jumps in postwar history. In London and Zurich, gold hit $190 per oz., just below the alltime high achieved in December 1974. At week's end, though, it sank back to around...
...largest boost in prices comes from the middlemen: the processors and distributors. Aggressive advertising and sales drives add dollars to the bill at the checkout counter. The rising costs of transportation and energy are another source of food inflation. Last year $16 billion was spent just to package food. It is not so much the cost of food itself that is driving prices up, but the consumers' apparently insatiable demand for convenience and variety-and the food companies' zeal to satisfy those appetites...
...years, organized labor has tried everything it could think of to crack J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc., the nation's second largest textile maker and citadel of Sunbelt antiunionism. It has used direct organizing campaigns, protests to the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, demonstrations at annual meetings of Stevens stockholders and an attempted nationwide boycott of Stevens products. Nothing has worked. Now the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union is trying a new pressure tactic: isolating Stevens from its friends in the business and financial community. Last week it won a victory of sorts by forcing two Stevens...
...further complication is that many of these firms show little or no desire to operate in the full light of day. Despite its efforts, the Clark subcommittee was unable to decide which were the largest U.S. firms in South Africa. This lack of even very basic knowledge of U.S. corporate activities in South Africa hampers any attempts to monitor the relationship between the companies and the Vorster government. Employing the same criteria used in United Nations estimates, the Clark subcommittee decided that the 13 largest American firms in South Africa are General Motors, Mobil Oil, Exxon, Standard Oil of California...