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RankTeam Record This Week 1. Ohio St. (64) 7-0 Beat Northwestern 36-10 2. UCLA (1) 6-0 Beat California 28-16 3. Tennessee (3) 6-0 Beat Alabama 35-18 4. Kansas St. (2) 7-0 Beat Iowa State 52-7 5. Florida St. 7-1 Beat No. 23 Georgia Tech 34-7 6. Florida 6-1 Did not play 7. Nebraska 7-1 Beat Texas Tech 17-10 8. Texas A&M 7-1 Beat Texas Tech 17-10 9. Wisconsin 8-0 Beat Iowa 31-0 10. Penn St. 5-1 Did not play 11. Georgia...
...Saturday, Ohio State got no help with its strength-of-schedule as it beat a weak Northwestern team 36-10, while two of its toughest earlier opponents West Virginia and Missouri lost. The Buckeyes have only one Top 25 opponent left- No. 22 Michigan...
Robert Gordon, an economics professor at Northwestern University, argues that computer-driven productivity gains may be undermeasured, but so what? They are no more wrongly estimated, he says, than in precomputer decades. Besides, computers are not exactly brand-new: commercial mainframes date back more than 40 years; PCs, 15 or 20 years. In all that time, they should have had greater impact, even on measured productivity...
Robert Gordon, who occupies the prestigious Stanley G. Harris chair of economics at Northwestern University, thinks profits may be hit even harder, though he offers no numbers. His explanation: labor shortages caused by the past boom are still severe and likely to remain so even with a slowdown in the growth of output. That condition will push up wages faster than companies will be able to raise either prices or productivity--that is, output per hour. Productivity is in fact already sliding, as it usually does at this late stage of a business expansion, the increasing computerization of the economy...
...business schools at Northwestern University and the Universities of Chicago and Michigan placed second, third and fourth respectively in this year's rankings, which were announced yesterday evening...