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...Editorial Director Ralph Graves and administered by Personnel's College Relations Manager Katherine Vinton Taylor, a select group of undergraduates spend their vacation months working as full-time paid journalists, developing their writing, reporting, researching and photographic skills. For the company, says Taylor, the benefits are substantial: "We strengthen our ties with the world of education, and we get an exceptionally talented group of summer employees...
Reagan sought to exploit the differences between the unions in Los Angeles. Said he: "The A.F.T. wants to upgrade standards, including emphasis on testing both students and beginning teachers, changing curriculum to strengthen academic requirements and increasing homework assignments. So do I." He also attacked the N.E.A. for "brainwashing American schoolchildren...
Among the priorities for the alliance this fall is to strengthen the Harvard Foundation an administrative office created to improve campus race relations in lieu of a Third World Center Many minority students have opposed the Foundation and several Black student groups actually boycotted the office last fall Nevertheless, other minority groups have worked with the office which handed out more than $15,000 in funding last year...
...that if they have any thought of entering the market with a low-to-medium-range mainframe, they had better be prepared to compete at an extremely low cost." Apple's Jobs believes that IBM's investments in Intel and Rolm are at least partially intended to strengthen IBM's ability to compete with Japan...
...heavily on short-term bank deposits, it was especially vulnerable to the credit squeeze that hit Eastern Europe after Poland's near default. But unlike the rest of the Soviet bloc, Hungary has been able to raise new loans in the West ($1.6 billion in 1982) to strengthen its cash position, partly owing to Western confidence in Fekete's economic management. The country last year joined the International Monetary Fund, and it has since met the organization's stiff loan requirements. Hungary succeeded through an austerity program that included a cutback in imports and sharply increased prices...