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...addition to the $1 million awarded through the two Challenge grants, ART has received over the past nine years a total of roughly $1.5 million in professional company grants and $400,000 through a variety of special programs, for an average of roughly $200,000 per year. Beginning in fiscal year 1986-87, ART is also receiving, through the Ongoing Ensembles program of the NEA, funding which could total $800,000 over five years...
Women's participation in college athletics has increased tenfold since Title IX's passage in 1972, and the number of women's varsity programs offered per college has grown steadily. But the number of women in leadership ranks has dwindled...
When OPEC members agreed last November to limit the group's oil production to 18.5 million bbl. per day in hopes of boosting prices, veteran oilmen were skeptical. Previous all-for-one pacts had crumbled when members secretly exceeded their quotas. This time producers are still cheating, but considerably less than most experts had expected. Oil-industry analysts estimate that OPEC is producing just 1 million bbl. per day more than the quota. As a result, OPEC's relative restraint is sparking a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas intermediate, a benchmark crude, reached $19.26 per...
...margin by buying a contract from a confederate at a bit more than the going price in the pit, or selling one for a bit less. For example, if a customer asks the broker to sell a soybean contract of 5,000 bushels and the market price is $7.50 per bushel, the crooked broker may sell the contract to a colleague for $7.40. That gives the colleague a discount of 10 cents per bushel, or $500, some of which he kicks back to his partner. The customer probably cannot challenge the price because there is no record of precisely when...
...savings rate and make Americans more productive. But, like the supply-side forecasts of smaller deficits, both promises failed to come true. The personal savings rate fell from 7.1% in 1980 to about 4% last year. At the same time, the growth of business productivity, or output per hour, averaged a meager 1.4% from 1980 to 1987, half the rate of the 1960s. Reason: the savings decline slowed investments in productive new equipment...