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Everywhere, from bookstores to boardrooms, from trading floors to ivory towers, speculations about the financial future fill the air. Declares Economist Robert Heilbroner, writing in The New Yorker: "It is a sense that an ill-defined but vast crisis looms on the economic horizon." In a University of Wisconsin-Madison survey of 105 top executives of major U.S. corporations, half the business leaders assigned a "high probability" to the advent of a major depression in the next ten years...
...Berkeley in demonstrations over university investments in corporations doing business in South Africa. At some big state university systems, grades were down: tougher standards cut the number of A's more than 4% at Cal State and 3% at Penn State. Old-time values were up: University of Wisconsin-Madison students voted Mom and Dad their No. 1 heroine and hero (runners-up: Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ). Law school and medical school enrollments were down after a boom of nearly two decades...
...University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is typical: corporate recruiting is up by 10% to 12% over last year. At some schools, oil companies and banks, which have done little hiring for two years, are back in the game. McDonald's is recruiting managers at the Ivy League's Brown University because of a need for "people who have high mental and physical energy levels." Even the Central Intelligence Agency has returned to campus, with 120 interested seniors showing up for a presentation at Stanford despite the impediment of 20 polite protesters...
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