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In interviews last week, students often cited a statistic from an issue of Time Magazine last spring to express their dissatisfaction with Harvard's spedning policies.
Esther B. Bitton, an administrative and counseling health officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), noted the IDF's low suicide rate relative to that of the U.S. armed forces, a surprising statistic given that Israel's military is "much more stressed."
The shipyards of Newport News, Va., are no longer the powerful job creators they used to be, but there is still lots of work to be had. The government employs a substantial number; telemarketers and computer makers have moved in; the regional unemployment rate is just 4.2%. But then there...
It's hard to judge a generation by its statistics. Five years ago, my generation was a group of overstuffed slackers; today we're Gordon Gekkos. An unlikely transformation. But there's at least one statistic that resonates: more of us are taking a full five years to get through...
Take prices. For the past 18 months, the company has been raising some prices selectively, and consumers have begun to stray. "Comp sales," an internal company statistic that tracks performance in existing stores, turned negative for six consecutive quarters through the third quarter of 1996, an unheard-of reversal for...