Word: prospects
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...then write a senior thesis, and face the prospect of long days in the library during the winter, and sleepless nights at the typewriter in April? No two people have exactly the same reasons, but graduating with honors is an obvious motive for writing one, a motive stressed by many thesis writers interviewed last week...
Modification or elimination of mandatory retirement is an idea that has arrived with a rush, catching almost everybody off guard. Concedes a U.S. Labor Department official: "The prospect of more old folks working hit us this month like a bolt from the blue, and quite honestly, we don't know how this is going to affect problems like chronic youth unemployment, sex discrimination and shifting consumer patterns. Nobody knows...
Educators are as worried about the Pepper bill as businessmen. The prospect at the university level is that a comfortably tenured faculty, whose work is not subject to any kind of review, will stay on forever, regardless of competence. This change could not come at a worse time, since the number of teaching jobs is shrinking. Says Robben W. Fleming, president of the University of Michigan: "We're creating a missing generation that doesn't have a chance in the academic world. The department heads say they are not going to have many openings for the next ten years. That...
...week, Carter said that the Soviets "have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match their cooperative stance ... We have narrowed down the differences to a relatively small number." To avoid raising hopes, the President added that "an immediate agreement is not in prospect...
Directors of Miles, which is dominated by three founding families, said they would consider the bid-but added teasingly that they are also weighing unofficial proposals from other, unidentified suitors, also said to be European. Wall Street scented the prospect of a profitable bidding war, and arbitragers (professional traders) bought so much stock that Miles shares jumped from around $29 before the proposal to more than $42; last Friday it closed...