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...years, and some stockbrokers are speaking of the prospect of a "horrible slide." Unemployment is the worst in 31 years, with 721,000 people out of work, 70,000 of them executives. The second largest auto insurance firm, Vehicle and General Insurance, has followed Rolls-Royce into bankruptcy-leaving one-tenth of Britain's drivers unprotected. The nation's largest industrial complex, Imperial Chemical Industries, plans to reduce its investments in Britain by some 25% over the next three years. Other investment cuts are expected in the petroleum, shipbuilding, motor and engineering industries. One notable light industry...
Harvard had to rely solely upon individuals as the mile-relay team failed by one-tenth of a second to qualify for the finals...
...unmistakably as the computer has altered the character of everyday life, it is changing the shape of the computer business itself. For the past three years, one-tenth of new U.S. investment in plant and equipment has gone into computers, enough to make electronic data processing the nation's fastest-growing major industry. Last year computer-industry revenues rose 17%, to some $12.5 billion. Still, the computer industry may in some ways be a victim of its own success. Computer technology has raced ahead of the ability of many customers to make good use of it. Not long...
...When a British travel firm's Belgian parent company was seized by the Nazis in World War II, the government of Winston Churchill assumed title to Thomas Cook & Son. By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines, hotels, steel mills, electric plants, and telephone, trucking and container firms. Today, however, Edward Heath's Conservative government wants to sell off some of the Crown's more profitable...
...statistics of the Pusey era show what is probably the most impressive growth of any college in the period. Harvard's annual budget increased from $39 million to $188 million, the numbered of endowed chairs more than doubled, to 277, and the Federal share of the budget grew from one-tenth to one-third. Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendhal, and provided new housing for the Education and Design schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and William James. Monuments...