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...cheap fares, but many travel agents no longer want to be bothered handling such unprofitable business. That leaves consumers on their own, so they have to grab brochures and do their homework if they hope to make a correct decision. To take advantage of consumer advances today requires a tougher and smarter buyer...
...winter it becomes harder not to see them, tougher to avert our gaze as we pass them by. The brutal storms of January tear through the cloak of statistics, and once again an abstract problem -- discussed in terms of percentage increases and changing demographics -- becomes a shivering man or woman struggling for survival, a pair of eyes that painfully remind us of our human bond. In cities across the nation shelters overflow, leaving the spillage to cope on steam grates or in subway tunnels or wherever else warmth can be found. These street people are the most destitute...
Riesman predicted that "all of academia is likely to suffer" if the mandatory age were abolished. He says that while Harvard may suffer less, small liberal arts colleges will face a tougher time because they tend to have more tenured faculty...
...Administration has already begun to adopt a tougher posture. Washington has given the twelve-member European Community until Jan. 30, for example, to settle a trade dispute involving the loss of U.S. grain markets in Spain and Portugal. Failure to meet the deadline will mean automatic 200% U.S. tariffs on a number of European products, notably wine, liquor and cheese. The problem is that the Europeans have promised to retaliate in kind, meaning that a major or minor protectionist trade war might already be in the offing...
...most corporate managers, the very mention of Carl Icahn's name is enough to cause shudders. But USX Chairman David Roderick may be tougher than most. Last week, after a three-month battle to gain control of the largest U.S. steelmaker, Icahn abruptly gave up, outmaneuvered by Roderick. The corporate raider and TWA chairman had been unable to raise the $10.5 billion needed to capture the company. Says Joachim Schnabel, investment officer for the College Retirement Equities Fund, which holds more than 2 million USX shares: "You have to credit USX management for not caving...