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...renowned schools like Caltech and M.I.T. No longer. Martin attends the Rochester Institute of Technology, a respectable but hardly prestigious college nestled in a wooded area south of New York's third largest city. R.I.T. is one of many once overlooked schools that are riding high on the wave of corporate demand for engineers. Enrollment in its engineering division has nearly doubled in the past ten years, to 1,633, and despite the recession, all but 20 of this year's 425 graduates already have job offers...
Inventory liquidation has been driving the economy steadily lower since last December. Week after week, in wave after wave, companies have been emptying warehouses, trimming stockpiles and cutting back on orders from suppliers. This was the major cause of the 3.9% drop in the gross national product during the first quarter. Says Otto Eckstein, chairman of the Data Resources Inc. economic forecasting firm: "The most significant factor behind the economic decline during the past three months has overwhelmingly been business's huge liquidation of inventories...
Since March 25, when Leonid Brezhnev first vanished from public view, wave upon wave of rumors has swept through the Soviet Union that the 75-year-old President had suffered a stroke. Ignoring the official explanation-that Brezhnev had merely gone away on vacation-Muscovites swapped reports that he was dying or indeed already dead. Some Western press accounts fueled the speculation. So it was with great anticipation that Soviet citizens waited by their television sets last week to learn whether the Soviet leader would turn up as scheduled at the festivities marking the 112th anniversary of the birth...
Lucy's Canvas, a Boston firm that started the new wave in September 1980, has sold about $6 million worth of the colorful laces. Goodtimes Industries...
...eerily metamorphoses into Purvis Hawkins, "the Messiah of Soul." Purvis is one of three new characters who will join Tomlin's company of creations. The other newcomers: Holly Oneness, a burned-out '60s folk singer, and Agnes Angst, a manic-depressive deeply into the "heavy mental" new wave sound...