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Faculty administrators had a slight respite from that nagging pain between the eyes this month, however, when Dean Rosovsky announced that he had balanced the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, giving the Faculty its first--albeit tiny--budgetary surplus in seven years...
Four years ago, she was considered "beyond help." Now she is making progress in a regular class. Lisa, 7, a slight hydrocephalic child, practiced her addition near by. When she first came to Trotter last year, she could not even hold a pencil. "If they were stuck in a hole somewhere, there's no way they could ever make it," says Barbara Fagone, who has been teaching handicapped children in her regular class for three years. How do her normal students react? "We found out last year that they're curious for exactly 20 minutes. Then...
...Cosmos to a title-was no small task either. After a four-month, 26-game schedule, the Cosmos made the play-offs along with eleven other teams in a wide-open battle for the championship. All four division races had been close, and the Cosmos were rated a slight favorite, more on the basis of potential than proven ability (they had finished second to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the Eastern Division). The New Yorkers kicked and clawed their way through four play-off rounds en route to the championship. In the end, it was an unheralded Briton named Steve...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences showed a slight budgetary surplus last year after running deficits for seven years...
...rising profits were caused mainly by higher sales, typically up 12% or more. Because operating expenses remained roughly the same as last year, when sales were slow, much of the increase in turnover spilled into profits. Among the 19 large oil companies, only two-Exxon and Occidental-showed slight second-quarter decreases. All the rest showed gains. The best performer by far was Amerada Hess, a big independent, whose second-quarter earnings rose 77% over the same period last year, to $51.9 million. Other outstanding performances: Atlantic Richfield (up 41%, to $191.2 million), Getty (up 21%, to $75.8 million), Union...