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...Texas (21%), New York (10%) and Florida (8%). Besides holding a potentially pivotal vote in close elections in those states, Hispanics are disproportionately young and thus constitute a large share of students in many school systems. At this rate, Hispanics could overtake blacks (30 million) as the largest U.S. minority...
...sell-off was the sharpest since the market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...
...signs of a new burst of inflation to sagging corporate profits to troubles in the junk- bond market that has fueled major takeovers. The singular event that shook investors was the faltering of a $6.75 billion labor-management buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, the second largest U.S. carrier. "That's when all hell broke loose," said Robert Newman, a floor trader for Equitrade Partners. "It was very reminiscent of something I do not care to think about...
While most Harvard students equate the Head with large swarms of strange people asking where they can buy beer, the regatta is actually a serious athletic event. The Head is the largest single-day rowing event in the world and the most famous in the United States...
Each 'Tub' Has Its Place: Harvard may have an endowment of more than $4.5 billion. It may be the largest academic fundraiser in the country this year. But some of the University's nine faculties couldn't care less. The reason? "Every tub on its own bottom"--the Harvard tradition which decrees that all schools must maintain their own financial autonomy. One result: the Graduate School of Education had a total budget less than half the size of what the Faculty of Arts and Sciences made in fundraising alone last year...