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...seekers caught in the degree-holders' crunch react variously to their condition. Some, at least at first, are indignant. Alicia Kaye, office manager for a Los Angeles employment agency, reports that liberal-arts majors who are told of openings in insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just...
Kelley's retort: the FBI must sometimes infiltrate groups to learn whether laws are about to be broken. Said he: "As a practical matter, the line between intelligence work and regular criminal investigations is often difficult to describe. What begins as an intelligence investigation may well end in arrest and prosecution of the subject...
...found that pharmacies in the San Francisco area charged 28 different prices, ranging from $2.50 to $11.75, for 100 tablets of Raudixin, a drug that reduces high blood pressure. Druggists contend that the stores charging the higher prices provide extra services like free delivery and charge accounts. FTC officials retort persuasively that customers should know the charges in advance so that they can decide for themselves whether the service is worth the price...
Pechman, Okun, Nathan and others retort that the economy is operating so far below its potential that for at least the next 18 months or so, a rekindling of inflation need not be feared. They are concerned about inflation from a different aspect: they believe that the savagery of the recession and the subsequent drop in demand should have forced a sharper slowdown in the rate of price increases than has, in fact, occurred. Businessmen, they suspect, are refusing to cut prices partly because they want to keep profit margins up, partly because they do not think that price cuts...
...Angry Retort. In Cambridge, Hewish angrily retorted that Bell's name had been associated with the discovery from the start and labeled Hoyle's charge "untrue" and "ridiculous." An expert from the Nobel awards committee, Swedish Physicist Hans Wilhelmsson said, "We would have been happy to give the prize to this other person, but there wasn't enough reason to do so." Added Caltech Astrophysicist Jesse Greenstein: "Her role was like that of a part-time newspaper correspondent who spots a big fire but doesn't - or can't - do anything about...