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...number of stateside assignments before achieving the rank of foreign correspondent and being sent to The Journal's Hong Kong Bureau. It was in Hong Kong that Kann first received wind of an impending struggle between India and Pakistan, Stationing himself in the troubled area. Kann's tile forecast the India-Pakistan War and the founding of Bangladesh. In recognition of his reporting he received the 1972 Pulitzer for International Correspondence...
...bachelor's degrees, 22% for holders of master's degrees and 20% for Ph.D.s. John Shingleton, director of the Michigan State University placement bureau, predicts that there will be a strong market for most skills this year, particularly in accounting and hotel management. Meanwhile, an annual job forecast compiled by Frank S. Endicott, Northwestern University education professor emeritus, indicates that job offers to college graduates will be up 19% for men and 35% for women from last year, and that openings for engineers with bachelor's degrees will rise 42%. The recent recession and lagging federal spending...
...plant, employer of two-thirds of Pittsfield's work force. Last winter, Richard K. Weil, the Eagle's industry and labor reporter, was barred from a GE press conference in New York after he reported the destruction by GE officials of a company-published-and pessimistic-business forecast...
...Common Market, even though it is not yet under the aegis of Rome. Israel will sign a pact with Rome, but the universally hailed Roman leader will turn out to be Antichrist and show up in Jerusalem to proclaim himself God. Lindsey's scenario goes on to forecast that Egypt, leading an Arab-African alliance, will attack Israel, and the Soviet Union, the "king of the north" mentioned in Daniel 11:40, will enter the act. The final conflict, of course, will be Armageddon (Revelation 19), and Christ will appear just in time to rescue earth from the ashes...
...steep angle of rise. Last September the consensus of TIME's Board of Economists was that the G.N.P. in 1973 would expand by about $110 billion. In the months since, the Board's prediction has been echoed by other analysts until it has become the standard forecast. When TIME's economists assembled a few days ago, they said that the economy's fresh momentum led them to even higher predictions. Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, asserted somewhat hyperbolically that the night before the meeting he had been revising...