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...balance, the recommendations would make unemployment rates slightly higher than now. Main reason: the commission wants to count as unemployed any discouraged worker who has sought a job within the past six months, vs. four weeks under present policy. That change, says the commission, would raise the jobless rate by two -or three-tenths of a point...
...question is to what extent unemployment figures chart real economic distress. They do not do this well at present, in large part because families in which both spouses work are now the norm rather than the exception; if one loses his or her job, the family can still get along. The commission wants to devise a "hardship index" that would count many employed people who labor at low-wage jobs and exclude the unemployed whose families still have sizable incomes...
...member McGraw-Hill board did the exact opposite. At a 3½-hour meeting that some present described as "intense," the directors voted unanimously to reject the $40 offer. McGraw apparently won unanimity by harping on his two main arguments: 1) that an Amexco takeover would undermine the editorial independence of McGraw-Hill publications, especially Business Week and the Standard & Poor's bond-rating service, and 2) that Amexco President Roger Morley had committed a "serious breach of trust" by serving as a McGraw-Hill director while Amexco was preparing its bid-a charge that McGraw repeated...
...visiting committee is scheduled to return later in the semester to present its written evaluation of the department. A committee of concentrators is also preparing a report of its own to try to "influence the visiting committee to see the department in a different manner than the Harvard Corporation sees it," Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-American Studies concentrator, said last week...
...students will present two proposals to amend the bill, Arthur Wing, Northeastern University's representative to the Massachusetts Independent Student Congress, said last night...