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...February, reports the nonprofit College Placement Council, job offers to seniors were up 26% over those made to the class of '73. And by last week, when the recruiting season ended at many colleges, more companies had visited more campuses and conducted more interviews than at any time in the past four years. The business interest seems paradoxical since the economy is threatened with that worst of all combinations, an inflationary recession. But many companies are still flush with the profits of boom-year 1973; they are going ahead with expansion plans and looking for new employees...
...they are receiving 59% of all job offers. Average starting salaries now range from about $11,500 for a civil engineer to $12,900 for a petroleum engineer-the best since the heyday of the space age. The demand is a legacy of the energy crisis, says Mike Donohue, placement director at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "So many manufacturers have been affected by a shortage of oil or oil derivatives that they have to make more efficient use of materials. The problems are technical problems, and it will take engineers to solve them...
...predicted influx of tourists and traffic. Perhaps the final blow to any possible community-library truce came in February when the General Services Administration hired C.E. Maguire Inc. to conduct the $184,000 consulting job which is supposed to finally evaluate the true merits of the library's placement on the 12-acre MBTA site...
...questions go unposed. Instead, newspapers give prominent placement to Kissinger's wedding, and reporters write feature stories on how exhausting it is to cover Kissinger. "Sleep is always in short supply on these trips," Gwertzman wrote. "The newsmen have to wait until Mr. Kissinger finishes his work for the night to put their stories together...
...case) that all the Palestinians were expelled--unlawfully, immorally, without justification. Where does forced expulsion from one's native village or town fit on a moral ranking of injustices? Before answering that question, let us be careful not to confuse expulsion with denial of self-determination, with placement in refugee camps, with denial of political freedom or nationhood. Because we must again recall what is not disputed. There was supposed to be a Palestinian state in the mandate. It was not Israel who--in 1948--destroyed that dream; it was Jordan who annexed the Palestinian state and made it part...