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...recent study of 90,000 law-school applicants by Linda Wightman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro illustrates both the challenge of recruiting minorities and the payoff. She found that of the 3,485 blacks accepted by law schools in 1991, just 687 would have been admitted only on the basis of board exams and grades. Yet these same minority students had graduation and bar-exam pass rates similar to whites'--and they had an incalculable value to the black community, as both professionals and role models...
...moguls are like teenagers: they want movies with big kicks and fast returns. That makes the slow-fuse payoff of the quieter people pictures anathema. "Normal thinking at the studios is if audiences aren't there the first weekend, they're not coming," says Gramercy's Russell Schwartz. "But our films have to be discovered. We live by word of mouth." And Oscar has the biggest mouth around. The day after the nominations were announced, the box office for Shine jumped 40% from the previous Wednesday...
...book's most unflattering portrait is the one drawn of Francis Benoit, a brilliant but intimidating chip designer who has more money than he will ever need but still keeps his tentacles in dozens of high-payoff projects. Insiders say he sounds a lot like Bill Joy, Sun's fiercely independent co-founder, who holes up in a research lab in Aspen, Colorado, developing consumer devices, including the interactive gizmo that helped spawn Java...
...final quote in the article is not so much incorrect as it is unintelligible. The point is: although the 2 1/2 year project to replace our current HOLLIS system will absorb much of the libraries' time and energies, we expect there to be a big payoff in terms of performance and the new services it will provide. More than this we cannot say until a new system has been selected...
...great way to match advertisers with customers who are ready to buy. "We're an extension of what companies are already doing with direct-marketing campaigns," says Tomlin, "only we can do it more effectively." That's because the consumer does most of the work. The payoff for Consumer's Edge? "If you join an auto-buying service or order a mutual-fund report, we'll get a little piece of the transaction. If you get a loan or a lease, we'll get a finder...