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...currently fallen from the top five salary list for the first time since the 1976-1977 school year, he continues to enjoy the most significant perquisites of any Harvard administrator a University owned house and limousine University officials unanimously play down the significance of Bok's rarely used automotive perk. Scott calls it an "inexpensive taxi" and in fact, Bok is known for driving to work in a well worn Volkswagen...
...high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...
...economics or efficacy of that stance aside, it's refreshing every once in a while to hear that someone is cracking down on all that expense-padding, paper-shuffling, perk-taking corruption. That's why it was satisfying to hear of the collaring and conviction of two of the most amoral reprobates ever to take the sacred oaths of government service. Norman Edward Wilson, 59, and William Earl Ferguson, 44, who were found guilty of tampering with the U.S. mail in their jobs in the section of the U.S. Post Office which rewraps damaged packages. Specifically, Wilson and Ferguson opened...
Even if Christmas sales do perk up during the next two weeks, most economists expect fourth-quarter retail sales-including automobiles, appliances and general merchandise-to be only slightly ahead of last year's fourth quarter, after adjustment for inflation. November's sales, reported last week, rose by an inflation-adjusted 2% above last year, thanks largely to the recent pickup in auto sales sparked by carmakers' cut-rate financing. The sluggishness in spending puzzles some economists, who see a number of reasons why people should be buying...
...built in part from spare NASA assemblies, including the motor from a solid-fuel Minuteman missile. The firm's owners now plan to go into commercial service in 1984, with monthly launches starting two years later. With space technology rapidly advancing and the competition for launches beginning to perk up, prices may start dropping out of orbit long before the satellites do. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Stephen Koepp/New York