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...subscribers (at $48 a year) and is shooting for 100.000. N.L.J. 's Page One is given over to readable, anecdotal stories of broad interest (a profile of Paper Chase Author John J. Osborn Jr.. an examination of nepotism in small law firms, a report on the lawyer boom in Atlantic City). Inside are more dryly technical columns on such subjects as taxation and computer use. "We are a balanced paper." says Finkelstein. "We cover both law and lawyers...
...seems so chancy. Inflation in the U.S., revolutions and coups around the world−the litany of upheavals has ceaselessly eaten away at people's faith in the abilities of their governments to deal effectively with the multiplying threats to global stability. The result has been a worldwide boom in doom, and in the marketplace of despair gold stands out like a beacon of security...
...direct consequence of the recent astronomical discoveries and a host of new and precise measuring techniques, general relativity is finally enjoying boom times. Thus Einstein, a genius in his own age, remains a powerful intellectual force in this time as well. The number of learned papers on general relativity has risen from only a handful a few years ago to some 600 or 700 a year. The relativistic revival can also be seen in the spirited competition by scientists around the world to be the first to detect the gravity waves, which, Einstein said, are the vehicle by which gravitational...
...come from the Navajo Nation, where TVA is now beginning a joint project with United Nuclear Corporation and Mobil Oil Company. The project is slated for the eastern region of the Navajo Nation, and faces stiff opposition, for understandable reasons. The company promises that the activity will bring a boom-town economy to the area. But the extraction of the highly radioactive uranium promises the release of low radiation from the ground. TVA's uranium mines will be in operation only 20 to 30 years, while the radiation will stay in the local environment for much longer. In January...
...Change in the work force. Since the mid-'60s, women and youths born during the postwar baby boom have flooded into the job market. Many lacked the training and experience to become highly productive workers in their first few years. By the CEA's estimate, industry's reliance on them to fill jobs has lowered productivity more than a third of a point per year...