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...economic stove higher than a simmer, those future business executives across the Charles continue to reap the rewards of the increasing corporate demand for elite technocrats. The Harvard Business School's Class of '77 led all comparable Harvard graduates, as well as graduates from other business schools, with a median starting salary of $22,000, 10 per cent higher than last year, according to a recently released Office of Career Development report...
Most buyers want more space and amenities, and they are buying a lot more house than in previous years. In 1950 the typical new house was only 894 sq. ft. in area, usually with two bedrooms, one bath, no garage and few built-in appliances. By 1971 the median dwelling had grown to 1,375 sq. ft. and last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says...
Boston Rumblings are heard in South Boston, but no one predicts a return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...
Despite reports that Keynes is dead and that Jimmy Carter cannot turn the economic stove higher than simmer, those future business executives across the river continue to reap the rewards of the increasing corporate demand for elite technocrats. The median starting salary of last June's Harvard Business School graduates was $22,000, ten per cent higher than the Class of '76, according to a report recently released by the Office of Career Development...
Professors and administrators at the Business School said yesterday that median starting salaries for Harvard MBAs could be expected to rise as competition to get into the school mounts and the cumulative work experience of the business students increases...