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During the five-year period between 1970 and 1975 the number of women enrolled in college full-time and part-time increased by 45 per cent while the number of men rose by only 21 per cent, Rosalind Bruno, a statistician with the education branch of the Census Bureau said Monday...
Reardon said the number of black applicants increased last year but he felt this was the result of recruiting by Harvard rather than part of a national trend. The Census Bureau report said black student enrollment rose 16 per cent between...
...budget review, the Administration made official its widely reported new estimates for the year. Key predictions: real G.N.P. for all 1976 will go up 6.8%, prices in December will be only 5.3% higher than in December 1975, and unemployment may drop below 7% by year's end (it rose slightly in June, to 7.5%). All these figures are considerably more optimistic than the Administration's original forecasts, made in January...
Quarter-to-quarter wobbles aside, it seems obvious that Du Pont has finally broken out of a decade in which its sales more than doubled-to $7.3 billion in 1975-but earnings rose hardly at all. One reason is that the recovery is increasing demand for Du Font's famous products, nylon, Dacron, Lucite, Freon, Teflon and thousands of others. Another reason is the policy of Irving S. Shapiro, who became chairman...
...bring on more. But then the buying stopped, and Du Pont and other manufacturers realized that they had built heavy overcapacity and were vulnerable to sharp price cutting. Result: Du Pont's earnings fell 33% in 1975. This problem has not yet been solved: though synthetic fiber sales rose sharply in the first quarter of 1976, the gain flattened out in the second quarter, and price cutting is still going...