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...roving correspondent for Pacific News Service, a San Francisco-based syndicate that claims 145 newspaper and radio subscribers. Boyle used the A.P. line last week to report that he was safe and had no intention of leaving. He added somewhat bleakly: "Survival journalism is getting a lot tougher these days. Keeping my head down...
Lean and Hungry. Yet for all the fear that precedes it, Mayday could well prove to be, at least for the moment, a massive "non-event." Commissions draw less attention from customers in strong markets, when heavy trading generates healthy incomes for brokers. More significant, Wall Street is tougher and more efficient than it was a few years ago, when poor market conditions heightened the dread of losing the crutch of fixed commissions. In the early '70s, for example, many sloppily managed firms were driven out of business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume...
...fine ultimate goal, but these residents now realize that they must force Bok to see first that they are unhappy with the people he currently has employed to deal with them. By letting the Overseers do some of the bargaining for a change, it will be that much tougher for Daly to convince Bok that everything is fine in Cambridge, and that it is just the same old bunch of dissidents saying the same nonsense. And it will be that much easier for Bok to see who is causing some of the problems, solve them, and move Harvard closer...
Though one of the two black admission officers at Harvard generally read all the folders on minority applicants, Reardon said they should not be regarded as "black admissions officers," but as just black members of the admissions committee. "Sometimes they can be a lot tougher on minority candidates than other, more liberal committee members," he added...
...goals in the final half clinched Radcliffe's victory, a win which, according to Matson, "proved much tougher than we expected." "The defense, featuring Karen Durbin, played well, and Stephanie was fantastic, but we had a problem with our midfielders. We'll have to practice clearing the ball from the defensive to the offensive zone," she said...