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...astronomical heights and real estate becoming a millionaire's game, stocks are looming up as just about the only investment play still within reach of ordinary people. Says Sidney Lurie, market analyst for Josephthal & Co.: "We believe that the broad stock-price trend is upward, that the boom in collectibles is ending, and that the boom in common stock is just beginning...
Freshman Ed Gazvoda stepped into the 134-1b. slot ordinarily reserved for the recuperating Fritz Campbell, and posted two crucial victories. Gazvoda had a few tough moments with Penn's Evan Weiss, who kept the Crimson wunderkind within striking distance until Gazvoda lowered the boom with a quick second period takedown to grab...
...revenue during 1979 because of electricity thieves. Says a spokesman: "We check 100,000 meters a year and find at least 4,500 cases in which a meter has been tampered with." The company blames rising electricity rates, caused by the spiraling price of oil, for the crime boom...
Scarcely three weeks after corn, wheat and soybeans plunged on news of the U.S. ban on sale of 17 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union, cash prices of all three crops largely returned to pre-embargo levels. The reasons for the rebound are many: the boom in gold and silver has led to a general surge in commodities; war scares have fanned fears of a reduction in available world grain supplies; a 1 million-ton export order has come in from Mexico; and there are rumors of higher demand from China. Most important, traders who oversold when...
Total enrollment is expected to shrink dramatically from the present record 11.5 million as the last of the baby-boom generation graduate by 1983. Pinched by the loss of all that tuition and by rising costs, schools will be under pressure to hawk their wares in the student marketplace. As the council sees it, the result will be a shift away from traditional academic disciplines and toward instruction in vocational skills like nursing and accounting. The change is already visible in community colleges and lesser-ranked four-year institutions. Observes the report: "Excellence was the theme. Now it is survival...