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Some investments approach that ideal. Allstate Insurance Co.'s private placement division maintained a growth rate of 40% a year during most of the 1960s by making prescient purchases in such companies as Memorex, Teledyne and Control Data. Chicago Financier E.F. ("Ned") Heizer has put his Heizer Corp. into a 32% ownership of Amdahl Corp., a computer maker that has booked $30 million of orders in its first year of production. The biggest hit of all was made by former Harvard Business School Professor Georges F. Doriot, who launched American Research and Development Corp. in 1946 as the nation...
...program will replace the 600 Neighborhood Youth Corps summer jobs which the city has lost in Federal cutbacks and a year-round job placement program of the Chamber of Commerce, which will also be discontinued next year...
...parents are still not satisfied with the response of the school system, the courts will be given the final say regarding the placement of the child...
...original draft of the law, Zeigler said, the final responsibility for the child's placement lay with the parents, provided that the presence of the child in question did not physically endanger the child's classmates. That plan was rejected as being too "circular," she said. "After a complex series of evaluations and reevaluations and referrals, that would have sent the decision right back to the place where the question originated," she said...
ALTHOUGH THE REGULATIONS for the implementation of the bill as it now stands may leave parents subject to the vagaries of a court uneducated about the issues of special education, there still will be a vast improvement over the present situation. With little or no legal control over placement, any decisions on placement have ultimately been a battle between parents and an individual school system. If the administrators of that school system decided, for whatever reason, that they could not handle the child, or that the child could not be appropriately educated by their school, the parent had to accept...