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...campuses offer thousands of courses, ranging from the most abstruse branches of nuclear physics to secretarial training. The university also offers full-credit courses through a television network that reaches 80% of the state's population. On a given day, the Maritime College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers cut patterns in Manhattan's garment district at the Fashion Institute of Technology, while future policemen seek an edge over criminals by studying...
...vast assets abroad, Jersey is the world's biggest private overseas investor. Thus "Iron Mike" Haider, in the course of a day's work, may be involved in everything from a Middle East coup to whether Jersey should eventually construct a 1,000,000-ton supertanker, or what the President of the U.S. has on his mind...
...refineries, pipelines stretching 3,000 miles, and research laboratories in Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. So diverse is Jersey that the European company even supervises a nine-acre miniature world near Grenoble, France. There Esso sea captains learn how to handle supertankers that will soon reach 800,000 tons in size by steering 15-ton models around waterways, including a replica of one of the bad bends of the Suez Canal...
...costly surge, manufacturers last week boosted prices on a wide range of products. Steel started it, with the rest of the industry following the lead of U.S. Steel and raising prices of cold-rolled, galvanized and aluminum-coated sheets by $5 a ton. The hikes will be reflected in the costs of such items as autos, appliances and heavy machinery. Before the week was out, increases were announced in carpets, chemicals, plastics, flooring and glass...
When asked why U.S. companies continue to raise prices in the face of cheaper foreign imports, one steel executive threw up his hands: "They're already undercutting us by $20 to $40 a ton, so maybe we could better compete by going out of business...