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...Harvard is a very attractive place to go," said Spencer Reynolds, Princeton's assistant dean of admissions. "The numbers have been fairly consistent over the years. Harvard has been the college students choose [over the other three] and represents the largest loss we have...
Metropolitan Los Angeles has been characterized as the world's largest parking lot, with 4.7 million vehicles making 25 million trips daily among 84 cities. Officials of the region took a promising step last week, however, toward giving all that chrome some competition. Mayor Tom Bradley officiated at a groundbreaking for a 21-mile, $595 million light-rail project to link Long Beach and Los Angeles, currently the country's largest megalopolis without rail transit...
Concern about the contents of alcoholic beverages seemed to have some foundation last week, when the Villa Banfi, the largest U.S. wine importer, had to recall up to 400,000 cases of Riunite wine because some of it contained traces of diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze. Austrian vintners were accused last summer of using that ingredient to sweeten wine...
...dubious distinction. The Farm Credit System, a network of 37 banks and 708 credit associations that is the largest single lender to American farmers, has joined the ranks of Chrysler and Lockheed in pleading for a federal bailout to save it from collapse. FCS officials last week went before Congress and in dire tones declared that the system needs $6 billion in federal aid to stay afloat. Said Ray Moss Tucker, a Kentucky dairy farmer and the group's chief spokesman: "Our request for assistance is one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. But we have...
...cable is partly a response to the industry's rough economic times. Cable's growth rate has slowed considerably in the past couple of years, owing in part to the proliferation of videocassettes, which offer new movies months before they appear on cable's premium channels. The two largest such channels, HBO and Showtime, actually posted a net loss in subscribers during the first half of 1985, the first such drop in their history. The solution, many pay-cable executives are deciding, is to supplement movies with original programming that can generate viewer loyalty. Translation: more series...