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...another example of the U. N. calling Israel to task for the sort of things it doesn't bother to--or cannot muster a majority vote for--calling other nations to task for, Ironically, the display goes up in the same week that the U.S. embassy estimated the death toll this past year alone in El Salvador to be 5,639, more than half of which were civilians. There seems, alas, no El Salvador photo display in the offing. Nor were there photo displays of the athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics in 1972, or the Jews killed in synagogue...
Tania B. Friedman, another med school admissions officer said the tail end of the baby boom may also have taken its toll on the applicant pool...
...have also entrusted our entire yuletide banquet to the mail-order people. The menu, selected during countless toll-free calls to every imaginable part of the U.S.A., will be, we venture, Lucullan but not decadent (pricewise...
...points, to 54%. Prices of the 24 bank stocks included in an index compiled by the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods investment firm are 46% higher than their summer lows. Despite the outwardly convivial atmosphere, however, an undercurrent of unease ran through the five-day A.B.A. session. Rattled by the rising toll of corporate bankruptcies and the threat of defaults on international loans to such fiscally unstable countries as Mexico and Poland, bankers quietly fear that the worldwide recession has not yet done its worst. Said Mont McMillen, executive vice president of San Francisco's Bank America Corp...
...many company insiders and analysts, Xerox is only now learning how to compete effectively in a world market. The dozen or so years of monopoly in the plain-paper copier field took their toll and left the company overstaffed and flabby when the hardball players from Japan got into the game. Says one old Xerox hand, " When IBM and Kodak started competing with us. we could understand that. They had the same values we had. But then the Japanese came in with another set of rules altogether. All of a sudden, it became a whole new world." It will take...