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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convert cash into inflation-proof tangible assets, the price of gold shot up to a wallet-popping $341 an ounce before settling back at week's end to $329. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been rising since July, plunged 15 points in one day, the largest decline since last December. Other news was also depressing. Wholesale prices rose in August at an annual rate of 15.4%, which portends still higher consumer prices in the autumn, and unemployment climbed during the month from...
...true, right? Wrong. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, each statement is false, according to data from extensive studies performed independently by the Department of Energy and Douglas Aircraft Co.'s transportation department. Drawing on this research, Atlantic Richfield Co., the nation's seventh largest oil company, last week launched a Drive for Conservation program to educate motorists and demolish fuelish fallacies. Among the tips...
...smallish (pop. 83,000) blue-collar town 25 miles northwest of Detroit, Pontiac, Mich., houses an assembly plant of the General Motors truck and coach division, one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers. One of the first Northern cities to carry out court-ordered desegregation, in 1971, Pontiac also became one of the first flash points of busing violence. White mothers chained themselves to block school buses. Six Ku Klux Klan members threw fire bombs. One woman even expressed her outrage by walking 620 miles to complain to Congressmen in Washington...
Harvard has nine salary grades for non-exempt employees (workers who must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week under the Fair Labor Standards Act). Cantor says the largest sectors are grades three to five, where the wages range from a minimum of $667 monthly in grade three to a maximum of $1070 in grade five for a 35-hour work week. A beginning secretarial job may be grade three, and a beginning research assistant's job is grade five. Merit--the quality of employees' work and their assumption of additional duties--determines promotion to higher...
Eighteen months later, the bill, signed by New York Governor Hugh Carey and due to go into effect January 1, has forced Educational Testing Services (ETS), the nation's largest testing firm, to devote 50 full-time workers "just trying to cope," Mary Churchill, associate director of information for the firm, says that "coping" will probably mean a cutback in the number of tests given in New York, and an increase in the cost of the tests, perhaps for all test-takers, not just New Yorkers...