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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of applicants to the GSAS also declined from 4450 last year to 4000 this year, Kraus said. Male applicants outnumbered females two-to-one, Kraus said, but added that the number of women applicants has been rising steadily for the past few years...
...alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...
...turnover at the top in Jari has been higher than at lower levels. In the past dozen years, between 22 and 26 chief operating executives at the Jari project have been fired or shifted out (nobody seems to recall the exact number). Some moved on because they had fulfilled the phase of development that required their particular expertise. But many were shunted aside because they disagreed with Ludwig or failed to anticipate his wishes...
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S.Naipaul ∙Collected Stories, Paul Bowles ∙Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙Sophie's Choice, William Styron ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
...nation's number three auto maker announced last week that its losses would surpass even the figure of $600 to $700 million it had announced earlier, putting Chrysler in striking distance of a new record for the largest loss in corporate history. Plagued with incompetent managers for the past decade, Chrysler is now close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler...