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...survey of 506 major companies found that earnings were up 29% in the July-September quarter, compared with the same period a year ago. Some of the most dramatic improvements came in several industries hit hard by the recession. Profits jumped 44% in the forest-products business, 58% for rubber companies and 93% for airlines. The auto industry had the most stunning turnaround of all. After losing $187 million in 1982's third quarter, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler earned $1.2 billion in that period...
...roofers worked to patch the leak in the skylight, Erdmann blamed the indoor deluge on cracks that develop between the glass and the panes when the building shifts. He said that the skylight has leaked for years and added that the glass should be removed and rubber seals installed...
Malaysia has benefited from higher prices for rubber, palm oil and tropical hardwoods. But rather than trying to expand its economy too rapidly, the government is aiming to reduce Malaysia's $10 billion foreign debt by curbing public spending and imports...
...PUBLIC SCHOOLS are America's "great social laboratory," as Columbia's Diane Ravitch says in Psychology Today this month, then who has been the mad scientist? Last spring, the media and the Presidential Education Commission ignited the current debate on public schools. Since then, every politician along the rubber-chicken speech circuit has thrown in their own proposals: raise teachers' pay, raise good teachers' pay; spend more federal money, give more local control; return to basics, advance to computers. But while debate has raged nationwide, local communities hold many of the answers to education problems...
When Australia II finally crossed the invisible line between the marker buoy and the committee boat, she was 41 sec. ahead. The spectator fleet exploded with excitement. Rubber dinghies, day sailers, party boats and ocean racers swarmed around the Down Under wonder in a cacophony of blaring horns and Klaxons. Ashore, bands of Australians waltzing Matilda and waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided...