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Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," the course with the largest enrollment this year, will become a Core course next year. But the course will remain unchanged, Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and Faculty head of Economics 10, said today...
Last week the industry's critics got some powerful new ammunition. Fifteen of the nation's largest oil companies released first-quarter profit figures, and they showed an acceleration of the winter-long earnings surge. Included in the group were six of the so-called Seven Sisters,* the richest and most powerful oil companies in the world, which, more so than their smaller competitors, have huge investments in all four aspects of the business: drilling, transporting, refining and marketing...
Both Shell Oil, the Houston-based affiliate of Europe's Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the nation's largest retailers, are heavily dependent on business in the U.S., where prices are federally controlled. They had large increases that only seemed puny when compared with the others, which enjoyed gains that ranged from impressive to downright startling: SoCal's ARRIS earnings rose 43% over the past year, Gulfs profits increased 61%, and Texaco's were up 81%. Marathon Oil had a rise of 108%, while Amerada Hess jumped 279%. Standard Oil of Ohio, holder...
They are variously involved with the needs and wishes of Latin America's largest class, the desperately poor, the uneducated, the politically unorganized. In fetid Netzahualcdyotl, a slum of 2.6 million people that grows like a tumor on the outskirts of Mexico City, several comunidades have cooperated to help protest rising bus fares and appalling health conditions. Human feces lie in the streets. Contaminated water adds to the filth and contributes to a death rate of more than 50% among children less than four years of age. Before Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in January...
...Newspapers. Associated is selling most of its interest in Esquire to 13-30 Corp. of Knoxville, Tenn., a small but fast-growing publisher of specialized magazines (New Marriage, Nutshell, Graduate) aimed at readers aged 13 to 30. The firm is half-owned by the Bonnier Group, Sweden's largest publisher. "The backers [Associated] have decided to shift their resources," said a weary Felker last week. "It's all very complicated...