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Acting Director of Parents United for Child Care Elaine P. Fresh said in Massachusetts 25 percent of families cannot find the child care they want at prices they can afford, and one-tenth of the families who are eligible for subsidized child care receive...
...contract with the television networks and ESPN guarantees that each team will break even. The first fan through the turnstile represents profit for these teams, and most of the franchises virtually fill their stadiums on season ticket sales alones. Each team plays only eight home games per year--one-tenth as many as baseball franchises--and sports diehards hungry for outdoor action between the end of the World Series and the beginning of spring training have little alternative...
...National Scene: Following a pair of wins over B.U. and Cornell this past week, Harvard moved up to fifth place in the Soccer America poll, and sixth in the Intercollegiate Soccer Association rankings--its highest rating all season. The Crimson's closest Ivy competitor is Columbia, ranked sixth and tenth, respectively...
...economy passed two impressive milestones last week. First, the nation completed its 58th consecutive month of growth, tying a peacetime record. Then the Government announced that for the first time in this decade the unemployment rate fell below 6%, dipping one-tenth of a percentage point from its August rate, to 5.9%, in September. Most of the employment growth over the past five years has been in services. But the manufacturing sector, recently reinvigorated by rising exports, accounted for fully 40% of the 132,000 new jobs created last month. Said Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist of the National Association...
...lies so well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high on intelligence tests, and was assigned to a high school for gifted students. There he enjoyed clowning and playing football, but his classwork suffered. He flunked the tenth grade twice, returned to a regular school, flunked again and finally dropped out. His mother was bitterly disappointed. But even in failure, she says, "Bill was determined to be somebody...