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More and more self-reliant investors are turning to discount brokerage firms, which offer no investment advice but charge commissions that often are only about one-fourth the fees asked by full-service firms like Merrill Lynch. Several major banks, including Bank of America and Chase Manhattan, have challenged Wall Street's kingpins by offering discount brokerage. At the moment, there is plenty of business to go around. Says Discounter Larry Kelly, president of First Texas Brokerage Services in Houston: "The phones have been ringing off the hook. We're tired, but happy about it. We've seen our trade...
...creation of such departments as women's studies, and in the departments arbitrarily restricted by the University to a few handfuls of students: Literature and VES are cases in point. Last week, perhaps 100 students showed up for the first meeting of an undergraduate Literature course which only admitted one-fourth or one-third that number. Whether or not the University believes literary theory is a subject worthy of more than extremely limited study, the combination of student demand and the adequate supply of courses at less stodgy institutions should persuade the administration to appease its high-paying constituency...
...Most of the time reading period isn't much of a change for me--maybe one-fourth less work is assigned," added Michael M. Dowling '85, a biochemistry con concentrator...
...page study, which took six months to prepare, surfaced just one week before UNESCO's executive board was scheduled to discuss the proposals of its Western members for improving the organization. The U.S. has announced it will pull out of the agency at the end of 1984 unless UNESCO changes its ways. The U.S. says UNESCO has a pro-Third World, anti-Western bias. A withdrawal by the U.S., which contributes roughly one-fourth of UNESCO's budget, could lead to financial collapse for the agency...
Polls last week found Labor leading with 44% to Likud's 28%. That voting pattern would give Peres as many as 52 seats in the 120-member Knesset, vs. 33 for Likud. However, one-fourth of the electorate is undecided, and Likud may have an edge with that group. Israelis remember that Likud at first trailed badly in the polls in 1981, only to emerge victorious. But there are important differences. In 1981, Likud began to close the gap ten weeks before the election, and Begin helped his chances by cutting taxes on luxury goods and staging a lightning attack...