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...educational analysts agree: the academic job market looks bleak now, and during the coming decade it will worsen considerably. Optimists estimate annual job openings will plummet from the current level of 15,000 to about 4500 during the early 1980s...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Program to Ready Ph.D.s For Careers in Business | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required to unload them), but the bulk carriers that haul grain, a huge export item, out of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast ports would be stopped. So the nation's already worrisome trade deficit would worsen. That would be a high price to pay for ensuring the incomes of a few thousand dock workers who fill a dwindling need anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Container Woes in Dockland | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...supply might fuel inflation (TIME, June 6). His view was disputed last week by Budget Director Bert Lance, who complained that the Fed's stinginess has prompted major banks to raise lending rates for their best customers to 6.75%, up from 6.25%. Lance believes that the increases could worsen inflation and weaken the recovery by pricing loans out of many businessmen's reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: A Strange Mix of Confidence and Doubt | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...part HRBSA saw ridicule as missing the mark in these cases and serving instead to keep both the stereotypes alive and to reinforce the prejudice of those already so inclined. Furthermore, the argument continued, such humor was clearly perceived as offensive by other students and this served only to worsen rather than improve race relations in the College. "One black Harvard undergraduate," to quote the HRBSA, "reports his younger sister became deeply disturbed upon viewing the Lampoon issue that pictured a black shining the shoes of John Harvard. Another young man states that at his prep school, black students were...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: A Small Step Forward | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...isolated and effective moments, and it begins with Roosevelt on the campaign trail in 1912. The absence of random, stream-of-consciousness reminiscence as attempts to carry out present action in a one-character play seem almost inherently doomed to failure. Some "corny" lighting and musical effects only worsen the general lag in the first part...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Smooth Sail for a Rough Rider | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

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