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Peretz will receive a one-year appointment to the institute, renewable annually...
...Committee on Degrees in Social Studies reappointed Peretz to a one-year term in Social Studies last month soon after it was informed it was permitted to do so under the "administrative tenure" provisions of the Faculty's eight-year limit rule...
...solid-state electronic technology that drastically reduced the price and bulk of calculators is now shaking up the watch industry-and producing a trend that defies both inflation and recession. "Quartz" timepieces powered by one-year silver oxide batteries came on the market in 1970, but as late as 1973 yearly sales of the devices were only 176,000. Then last year, despite a 12% rate of national inflation, manufacturing economics enabled sellers to mark down price tags from an average $118 to about $95, and volume jumped to 650,000 even as the recession deepened. Tom M. Hyltin, president...
...banks, apparently fed up with the chronic budgetary ills of Albany and New York City, refused to bid on bonds issued by the state's Urban Development Corporation. The UDC, created by the legislature mainly to finance low-cost ghetto housing, could not pay off $104.5 million in one-year notes. The state was forced to undertake an exceedingly costly rescue operation to save the agency from bankruptcy...
...control statutes. The first case under Massachusetts' new law, which went into effect on April 1, was decided last week when Calvin Hebert, 18, was found guilty of carrying a rifle without a permit. If Hebert's appeal is turned down, he would be subject to the one-year mandatory jail sentence the new law imposes on all offenders, even transients with guns registered in states other than Massachusetts...