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It's not just ExxonMobil. Oil-field-services provider Baker Hughes keeps a monthly tally of how many rigs are active around the world, and the rig count peaked at 6,227 in December 1981. In April of this year it was just 2,836. But ExxonMobil is the most...
In the early 1920s, Congress created a system of immigration quotas based on countries of origin, weighted toward northwestern Europe. "The races from Southern and Eastern Europe," a lobbyist argued, had no experience of government other than "paternal autocracy." The great immigration contraction coincided with a nationwide revival of the...
Things were not looking good for R.G. Barry Corp., and that was before the plant manager was taken hostage. The $125 million company in Pickerington, Ohio, has been making Dearfoams slippers--sold mostly in department stores like J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart--since 1947. With the son of a...
While the offense peaked in one inning, the Crimson defense stayed steady to secure the win. Three Harvard pitchers saw time on the mound, starting with freshman Margaux Black. She threw for three innings, surrendering only two hits and one walk. In relief, junior Amanda Watkins also pitched three innings...
Associate Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93, a popular teacher and well known scholar, is held in such high esteem by his colleagues that in 2005 he became the first junior faculty member to be nominated for tenure by the Sociology Department in more than a decade. It...