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...Harvard-Radcliffe was the critical or decisive factor in admitting the applicant. It is clear that the `lineage tip' can work to the advantage of an applicant by offsetting weaker credentials in virtually any of the rating categories. There is also some evidence to suggest that certain alumni parents' status may be weighed more heavily than others. For instance, the distinction made between alumni and "S&S" alumni suggests that legacies whose parent(s) participates on the Schools and Scholarship Committee are likely to get a bigger `tip' (more positive weight) in the admissions process than legacies whose parents...
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...deal came one week after directors of UAL, United's parent company, rejected the latest union bid to acquire the airline. The order indicated that United was eager to expand its routes and put the takeover fight behind...
...effort to sustain profit margins, Geyer repeatedly imposed layoffs and other economies. Last week, however, when parent company president Robert Jelenic demanded yet another round of dismissals, Geyer warned that further cuts might damage the paper's news content and circulation. Employees were then treated to the unusual spectacle of a chief executive being sacked for fighting to retain jobs for the rank and file. Jelenic imposed the cuts himself, reducing the news staff from a onetime high...
...holding steady, advertisers are skittish, and they normally account for about 70% of newspaper revenues. Hardly a major daily has escaped, from the normally ad-fat Los Angeles Times, where August's classified linage fell 17% below the same month last year, to the New York Times, the parent company of which reported last week that third-quarter profits from continuing operations fell 43.9%, in large part because of a 10.7% drop in ad linage. Says executive director Morley L. Piper of the New England Newspaper Association: "It's an industry- wide slump -- the worst in this region, I think...