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...schisms as disgruntled conservatives packed up and started their own small denominations or joined other existing churches. Both Presbyterian branches have also suffered a steady drop in membership. In all, the Southern church has declined by 129,000 adherents and the Northern church by a disastrous 778,000, or one-fourth of its total membership...
...determined effect from pushing out established mathematicians is only part of the Soviet problem. Discouraging younger Jewish scholars from advancing could also have serious implications for Soviet efforts in the field. Bernstein in himself estimates that in his undergraduate class of about 400 to 500, at least one-fourth were Jewish. Now, he says, the figure has dropped to 1 percent...
High-technology companies, some of which avoided the worst of the recession, are also pacing the nascent recovery. National Semiconductor, a giant California firm that has been a voice of pessimism during the past year, in recent weeks has rehired one-fourth of the 600 workers it laid off at a Salt Lake City factory and is running large want-ads in San Jose, Calif. "From talking to customers, there is more enthusiasm," says Company Spokesman Michael Ayers. "We think things are picking up, and 1984 will be a gangbuster year...
...fund a highway and mass-transit rebuilding program, which had bipartisan backing, and a larger public works bill proposed by Democrats. The poll shows that 30% of Americans want only the highway-transit program, while 40% want both the road repairs and a larger jobs-creation program. One-fourth of the respondents rejected both of the proposals, while 5% cannot decide...
Although both questions passed by more than three-to-one margins, only slightly more than one-fourth of all students turned out to vote in the Council's first campus-wide referenda, which were plagued by several logistical problems...