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Citing the fact that women make up one-fourth of the New Hampshire legislature, McLane, a Republican, said that "there's no question we have broken through. You never think about being a woman in the New Hampshire legislature...
...from a Reform Jew; a Jew from Germany may have less in common with a Jew from Eastern Europe than with non-Jews. Yet Jews are united on many issues. Fundamental is education. No other ethnic group sends so many of its sons and daughters to college. While only one-fourth of the general population that is 25 or older has had some college training, a 1971 Jewish study found 54% of Jews in that age range had gone to college. By 1985 it is estimated that half of all Jews under 65 will be college graduates. The zeal...
...recent months the auto industry has been jolted by one of the worst sales collapses in its history. Falling production has idled one-fourth of its work force and led to a glut of 1.6 million unsold cars. To get sales rolling again, the industry is now taking two expensive gambles. By the end of this month it will have spent millions in a program of cash rebates - ranging from $200 to $600 on selected models - designed to lure reluctant buyers. For the longer term, Detroit is committing billions to an overdue drive aimed at developing and producing whole...
...companies are lavishly promoting their rebate programs. Chrysler, which is saddled with the heaviest backlog of unsold cars and was first to begin offering rebates, is spending one-fourth of its $50 million annual ad budget on a series of video spots featuring TV Pitchman Joe Garagiola in a carnival setting urging viewers to hurry, hurry, hurry to their nearest dealer. Lincoln-Mercury commercials have Green Bay Packer Coach Bart Starr sincerely touting Ford's $200 to $500 giveaways. Dealers round the country are jumping in with their own brands of salesmanship and showmanship-some of them bizarre...
Village Voice Columnists Howard Smith and Brian Van der Horst call it "depression fever." They recently polled 150 people and reported that one-fourth "look forward to [a depression] as some kind of perverse attraction." Understandably, those too young to remember the '30s were the most enthusiastic about the possibilities of a depression. Those who lived through the last one, reported the columnists, "thought we were crazy even...