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...graduate school makes an exact estimate of how well Harvard Ph.D.'s are faring in the job market impossible. Each department compiles its own study, and each uses its own criteria to determine what constitutes job placement. (In one department work as a bank officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because of the varying definitions of the word "job." But one thing is certain...
...July a California Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such...
Hugh Sidey's assessment [Aug. 1] of President Carter's first six months vis-à-vis the national mood is right on! The nation wants and needs an administrator, not a salesman. Espousing catch-phrase slogans is the easy work of politics; executing successful programs is the difficult work of Government...
Most days for most Americans, sport is a narrower experience. Sit in the living room. Tug the TV button. Heralded by an announcer-salesman, canned sport pops up on the color screen...