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...Nursing-home expenses increased more than fourfold, to $24.2 billion...
Such employee benefits have dramatically increased relocation budgets for corporations. It currently costs about $30,000 to transfer an executive within the U.S., a nearly fourfold increase since 1973, according to the Relocation Council. As a result, many firms are cutting back on corporate moves. During the mid-1970s, IBM transferred 8,000 of its 157,000 domestic workers annually, and wags used to say that the company's initials stood for "I've Been Moved" rather than International Business Machines. But this year, though its work force has increased by about onequarter, the office equipment giant will...
...under such silent lands as these that the boundless riches lie, awaiting the power shovel and the drill. Energy developers first began arriving in droves in 1973, when OPEC hiked its prices fourfold and jolted the nation's oil and gas companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation...
...with the City and Regional Planning Program (CRP)--formerly part of the Graduate School of Design--added about 250 students to the school and made the need for career services expansion "a high priority" for the school. Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean, said yesterday, adding the school's fourfold expansion within five years is "amazing and crazy...
...launch a national edition. The Times will find its Manhattan rival dug in and ready to slug it out. The Journal has twelve regional printing plants, seven of which can send or receive ready-to-print pages by satellite. About 95% of subscribers get same-day delivery. The fourfold rise in U.S. postal rates during the 1970s convinced the Journal that it should begin delivering its own papers; this faster service reached 16% of subscribers last year and is expected to cover...