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...bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...
...Israeli attack unified, however briefly, the normally divided Arab world, which put aside its own conflicts to urge the U.S. to restrict Israeli "aggression and expansionism" and to ask the United Nations to impose "binding sanctions" on Israel. Western diplomats in the Middle East also feared that the Arabs might feel forced to launch a retaliatory attack of some kind against the Israelis to recover their honor after yet another humiliation. Such an attack would certainly be answered by the Israelis, and the cycle of violence would quicken...
...Restrict Money-Market Funds. The S and Ls see the money-market funds as their main competition, since so much cash has gone out of their vaults and into the popular new accounts. The S and Ls, therefore, would like the Federal Reserve to impose the same kind of reserve requirements on money-market funds that it now requires of banks. At present, banks have to set aside a percentage of their total deposits in a reserve account that cannot be lent to customers. If the money-market funds also had to do that, it would increase their costs...
...School is not playing a zerosum game, as they would say on Boylston St. It will continue to grow, striving to become the Harvard Business School of the public sector. Few students and faculty would argue that it should restrict such expansion, since both reap the benefits of increased prestige, but some feel that in an effort to grow, it has forgotten them. Porter sums up the combination of concern and optimism. The K-School, she says, is "doing a lot of things. It's having growing pains...
...programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home, and we couldn't recommend it for anyone else." Furthermore, claims Abrams, the code could so restrict availability of infant formula that "the health of children may actually suffer." Legal scholars might disagree about the gravity of those constitutional problems, but the decision is consistent with the Administration's zealous support for American business, and its antagonism toward economic regulation...