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Some seeming nonessentials, however, seem to remain much in demand. Says Lewis Katcher, a research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports...
...recent study by a U.S. management consulting firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, calculates that the chief executive of a typical medium-size company in Germany earns 50% more than his U.S. counterpart, 40% more in Belgium and The Netherlands, and 20% more in France. Business International, a Geneva research firm, notes that in Switzerland today, a receptionist now gets $19,700 a year, an executive secretary $27,000 and a salesman...
Controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, say that the probe could be destroyed as it swoops close to the outermost of Saturn's thin visible rings. But safe passage should provide a scientific bonus. After passing Saturn, Pioneer 11 will turn its electronic eyes on Titan, largest of Saturn's ten known moons, which seems to have a solid surface and methane atmosphere. The satellite could shelter organic molecules and-it is an extreme long shot-even primitive life forms. Since scientists have found no life on Venus, Mars or Jupiter, sighs Project...
...B.S.N. may eventually not be enough. The National League for Nursing, a coalition of nursing administrators, educators and other leaders, argues that a nurse practitioner should have a master's degree. Some nursing officials are urging nurses to get Ph.D.s if they want to move on to teaching, research or administrative positions...
...ever said reading the National Journal was easy, and therein lies its appeal. Launched ten years ago by the Government Research Corp., a small capital consulting firm, the Journal was orginally intended as a tool for businessmen and lobbyists in dealing with Government. But the magazine has also proved indispensable to bureaucrats and legislators, and today that dense, no-fooling Washington weekly has 4,000 subscribers, each willing to pay $345 annually. "We're a sophisticated trade magazine for those involved in policymaking," says Publisher John Fox Sullivan, and the Journal is every bit as thorough-and sometimes...