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...their added schooling would end in frustration. "I'm absolutely, terribly influenced by economic concerns," said Nora M. Hemann, who has applied to a fine arts program. "I'm interested in teaching, and I've heard it's a very closed field; as I understand it, it's either sink or swim...
...counterman goes to a sink by the pay phone to wash his hands, and the man with the crossbite drinks down the rest of his cup. It is now 4:15--time to leave the Tasty--so the other customer finishes off his lime rickey, pays his bill, and walks out the door...
...This is the food on which bull markets feed." Gordon believes that the Dow will rise only to about 900 in the next few months. Richard McCabe, a vice president with Merrill Lynch, is gloomier; he predicts that the Dow will lose all its surge of last week and sink below 780 by fall...
...houses to go along with his factory. Thus the town was born. Today Weirton Steel Co. is a division of National Steel Corp., but a majority of the labor force in Weirton (pop. 25,536) still works in the rumbling, fuming steelworks along Main Street. "It's sink or swim together," says Mary Brula, a bank teller whose husband has worked at Weirton Steel since...
...while Beauticians Yves and Nancy Graux coiffed on Wednesdays and Fridays. Unfortunately, this arrangement left everyone with emotional split ends. Beauticians and barber feuded over customers' chairs; maintenance workers had to move a different one into position each day. Against the Grauxes' wishes, Pitts had the shampooing sink lowered two whole inches. The Grauxes, meanwhile, suspected Pitts of watering down their shampoo and demanded better locks for their cabinets. That was all the snipping the White House could bear. Said Baker last week: "We think there ought to be a facility for men to get haircuts and women...